PostgreSQL DESCRIBE TABLE Equivalent

Some DBMSs such as Oracle, MySQL, and MariaDB have a DESCRIBE command that returns information about tables and views. It goes DESCRIBE table where table is the name of the table or view, and it can also be followed by a column name if you only want information about a specific column.

PostgreSQL doesn’t have a DESCRIBE TABLE command as such, but there are alternatives.

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How to Format Numbers with Commas in SQL

Most of the major RDBMSs have functions that enable us to format numbers with commas as either the group separator, or the decimal separator.

Some RDBMSs also output certain numeric data types with commas in the relevant place.

Below are examples of formatting numbers with commas in some of the more popular DBMSs.

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