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# adminShowShards

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        <h3>adminShowShards</h3>
        <div className="member-signature"><span className="modifiers">public</span> <span className="return-type"><a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/protocol/AdminShowShardsResponse" title="class in com.gpudb.protocol">AdminShowShardsResponse</a></span> <span className="element-name">adminShowShards</span><wbr /><span className="parameters">(<a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/protocol/AdminShowShardsRequest" title="class in com.gpudb.protocol">AdminShowShardsRequest</a> request)</span> throws <span className="exceptions"><a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/GPUdbException" title="class in com.gpudb">GPUdbException</a></span></div>
        <div className="block">Show the mapping of shards to the corresponding rank and tom. The response message contains list of 16384 (total number of shards in the system) Rank and TOM numbers corresponding to each shard.</div>

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          <div className="dt">Parameters:</div>
          <div className="dd"><code>request</code> - <a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/protocol/AdminShowShardsRequest" title="class in com.gpudb.protocol"><code>Request</code></a> object containing the parameters for the operation.</div>
          <div className="dt">Returns:</div>
          <div className="dd"><a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/protocol/AdminShowShardsResponse" title="class in com.gpudb.protocol"><code>Response</code></a> object containing the results of the operation.</div>
          <div className="dt">Throws:</div>
          <div className="dd"><code><a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/GPUdbException" title="class in com.gpudb">GPUdbException</a></code> - if an error occurs during the operation.</div>
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        <h3>adminShowShards</h3>
        <div className="member-signature"><span className="modifiers">public</span> <span className="return-type"><a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/protocol/AdminShowShardsResponse" title="class in com.gpudb.protocol">AdminShowShardsResponse</a></span> <span className="element-name">adminShowShards</span><wbr /><span className="parameters">(<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/util/Map.html" title="class or interface in java.util" className="external-link">Map</a>\<<a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" className="external-link">String</a>,<wbr /><a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang" className="external-link">String</a>> options)</span> throws <span className="exceptions"><a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/GPUdbException" title="class in com.gpudb">GPUdbException</a></span></div>
        <div className="block">Show the mapping of shards to the corresponding rank and tom. The response message contains list of 16384 (total number of shards in the system) Rank and TOM numbers corresponding to each shard.</div>

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          <div className="dt">Parameters:</div>
          <div className="dd"><code>options</code> - Optional parameters. The default value is an empty <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/util/Map.html" title="class or interface in java.util" className="external-link"><code>Map</code></a>.</div>
          <div className="dt">Returns:</div>
          <div className="dd"><a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/protocol/AdminShowShardsResponse" title="class in com.gpudb.protocol"><code>Response</code></a> object containing the results of the operation.</div>
          <div className="dt">Throws:</div>
          <div className="dd"><code><a href="/content/api/java/com/gpudb/GPUdbException" title="class in com.gpudb">GPUdbException</a></code> - if an error occurs during the operation.</div>
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