Get table details

Viewing table details exposes the underlying schema, table properties, and configuration metadata for an Apache Iceberg table in the Lakehouse runtime catalog.

In credential vending mode, query engines also retrieve short-lived access credentials to interact safely with underlying Cloud Storage files without requiring direct IAM storage permissions.

You can inspect table details using the Google Cloud console, SQL DESCRIBE commands in Spark and Trino, or the REST API.

Before you begin

  1. Verify that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

  2. Enable the BigLake API.

    Roles required to enable APIs

    To enable APIs, you need the serviceusage.services.enable permission. If you created the project, then you likely already have this permission through the Owner role (roles/owner). Otherwise, you can get this permission through the Service Usage Admin role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin). Learn how to grant roles.

    Enable the API