TheGET_DDLfunction retrieves the Data Definition Language (DDL) script that was used to create a given object. Executing:
SELECT GET_DDL('TABLE', 'MY_TABLE');
returns the full DDL including column definitions, comments, clustering keys, constraints, masking policies, and other metadata. This makes it essential for schema migration, replication, compliance audits, and environment synchronization.
DESCRIBE TABLEshows only column-level metadata-names, types, nullability-but does not return the full DDL.
SHOW TABLEis not a valid Snowflake command; tables are listed using SHOW TABLES.
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES lists table metadata, but the provided option "ABLES" is invalid and still would not provide DDL even if corrected.
Thus,GET_DDL()is the only method that returns the complete table definition directly.