# GetDatabase


Returns a database object for the specified database and data catalog.

## Request Syntax


```
{
   "CatalogName": "string",
   "DatabaseName": "string",
   "WorkGroup": "string"
}
```

## Request Parameters


For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [CatalogName](#API_GetDatabase_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="athena-GetDatabase-request-CatalogName"></a>
The name of the data catalog that contains the database to return.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.  
Pattern: `[\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*`   
Required: Yes

 ** [DatabaseName](#API_GetDatabase_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="athena-GetDatabase-request-DatabaseName"></a>
The name of the database to return.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.  
Required: Yes

 ** [WorkGroup](#API_GetDatabase_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="athena-GetDatabase-request-WorkGroup"></a>
The name of the workgroup for which the metadata is being fetched. Required if requesting an IAM Identity Center enabled AWS Glue Data Catalog.  
Type: String  
Pattern: `[a-zA-Z0-9._-]{1,128}`   
Required: No

## Response Syntax


```
{
   "Database": { 
      "Description": "string",
      "Name": "string",
      "Parameters": { 
         "string" : "string" 
      }
   }
}
```

## Response Elements


If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

 ** [Database](#API_GetDatabase_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="athena-GetDatabase-response-Database"></a>
The database returned.  
Type: [Database](API_Database.md) object

## Errors


For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** InternalServerException **   
Indicates a platform issue, which may be due to a transient condition or outage.  
HTTP Status Code: 500

 ** InvalidRequestException **   
Indicates that something is wrong with the input to the request. For example, a required parameter may be missing or out of range.    
 ** AthenaErrorCode **   
The error code returned when the query execution failed to process, or when the processing request for the named query failed.
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** MetadataException **   
An exception that Athena received when it called a custom metastore. Occurs if the error is not caused by user input (`InvalidRequestException`) or from the Athena platform (`InternalServerException`). For example, if a user-created Lambda function is missing permissions, the Lambda `4XX` exception is returned in a `MetadataException`.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

## See Also


For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/athena-2017-05-18/GetDatabase)