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Administration Commands



This page provides reference information for the system administration commands in TiDB Cloud Lake.

System Monitoring

CommandDescription
SHOW PROCESSLISTDisplay active queries and connections
SHOW METRICSView system performance metrics
KILLTerminate running queries or connections
RUST BACKTRACEDebug Rust stack traces

Access Control

CommandDescription
FLUSH PRIVILEGESForce every query node to reload role and privilege metadata

Configuration Management

CommandDescription
SETSet global configuration parameters
UNSETRemove configuration settings
SET VARIABLEManage user-defined variables
SHOW SETTINGSDisplay current system settings

Function Management

CommandDescription
SHOW FUNCTIONSList built-in functions
SHOW USER FUNCTIONSList user-defined functions
SHOW TABLE FUNCTIONSList table-valued functions

Storage Maintenance

CommandDescription
VACUUM TABLEReclaim storage space from tables
VACUUM DROP TABLEClean up dropped table data
VACUUM TEMP FILESRemove temporary files
VACUUM VIRTUAL COLUMNRemove obsolete virtual column files
SHOW INDEXESDisplay table indexes

Dynamic Execution

CommandDescription
EXECUTE IMMEDIATEExecute dynamically constructed SQL statements

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