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Data Lake Formation:UpdateDatabase

Last Updated:Dec 11, 2025

Updates the details of a database in a data lake.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

dlf:UpdateDatabase

*All Resource

*

None None

Request syntax

PUT /api/metastore/catalogs/databases HTTP/1.1

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

Body

object

No

The HTTP request body in JSON format.

CatalogId

string

No

The ID of the data catalog.

1344371

DatabaseInput DatabaseInput

No

The new database.

Name

string

No

The original name of the database. If the name is not changed, only other metadata is updated.

database_test

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

The returned result.

Code

string

The status description.

OK

Message

string

The error message.

.

RequestId

string

The request ID.

161F5EFC-E97E-43C0-AACF-FF18FAC912F0

Success

boolean

Indicates whether the request was successful. Valid values:

  • true: The request was successful.

  • false: The request failed.

true

Error codes:

  • AlreadyExists: The new database name already exists.

  • NoSuchObject: The specified database does not exist.

  • InternalError: Other types of errors. For more information, see the Message parameter.

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "Code": "OK",
  "Message": ".",
  "RequestId": "161F5EFC-E97E-43C0-AACF-FF18FAC912F0",
  "Success": true
}

Error codes

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.