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# show_datasink

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.show_datasink"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">show\_datasink</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">name</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span>, <span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">options</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">{"{"}{"}"}</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L38374"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Shows information about a specified <a className="reference external" href="/content/concepts/data_sinks/">data sink</a> or all data sinks.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">name (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Name of the data sink for which to retrieve information. The name must refer to a currently existing data sink. If ‘\*’ is specified, information about all data sinks will be returned.</p>
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              <p>Optional parameters. The default value is an empty dict ( {"{"}{"}"} ).</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A dict with the following entries–</p>

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            <div className="dt">datasink\_names (<span className="em">list of str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>The data sink names.</p>
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              <p>The destination type of the data sinks named in output parameter <span className="em">datasink\_names</span>.</p>
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              <p>Additional information about the respective data sinks in output parameter <span className="em">datasink\_names</span>. Allowed keys are:</p>

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                  <p><strong>destination</strong> – Destination for the output data in ‘destination\_type://path\[:port]’ format.</p>
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                  <p><strong>kafka\_topic\_name</strong> – Kafka topic if the data sink type is a Kafka broker.</p>
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                  <p><strong>user\_name</strong> – Name of the remote system user.</p>
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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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