Required. The parent, which owns this collection of tables. Format: projects/{project_id_or_number}/locations/{locationId}/catalogs/{catalogId}/databases/{databaseId}
Query parameters
Parameters
pageSize
integer
The maximum number of tables to return. The service may return fewer than this value. If unspecified, at most 50 tables will be returned. The maximum value is 1000; values above 1000 will be coerced to 1000.
pageToken
string
A page token, received from a previous tables.list call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.
When paginating, all other parameters provided to tables.list must match the call that provided the page token.
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