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# show_tables_by_type

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.show_tables_by_type"> <span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">show\_tables\_by\_type</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">type\_id</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">label</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#L40369"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Gets names of the tables whose type matches the given criteria. Each table has a particular type. This type comprises the schema and properties of the table and sometimes a type label. This function allows a look up of the existing tables based on full or partial type information. The operation is synchronous.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">type\_id (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Type id returned by a call to <a className="reference internal" href="#gpudb.GPUdb.create_type" title="gpudb.GPUdb.create_type"><code className="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span className="pre">GPUdb.create\_type()</span></code></a>.</p>
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            <div className="dt">label (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>Optional user supplied label which can be used instead of the type\_id to retrieve all tables with the given label.</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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              <p>List of tables matching the input criteria.</p>
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              <p>Additional information.</p>
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