SHOW Semantic Definitions
Generic Description
The abstraction catalog now has direct Cypher discovery clauses for the schema-level abstraction definition families:
SHOW FEATURESSHOW INTERVENTIONSSHOW SCENARIOSSHOW SNAPSHOTSSHOW SPLIT POLICIESSHOW DATASETSSHOW MODELSSHOW POLICIESSHOW ANALYSIS RUNSSHOW REPORTS
Example:
SHOW FEATURES
SHOW ANALYSIS RUNS
Consumer-Level Explanation
Use these clauses when you want to inspect what the abstraction platform currently knows without dropping into procedure form.
They are the discovery pair for the new CREATE ... OPTIONS { ... } abstraction DDL family.
Conceptual Explanation
SHOW ABSTRACTIONS already exposed the first abstraction layer.
These SHOW clauses extend that idea to the rest of the abstraction platform:
- feature definitions
- intervention definitions
- scenario definitions
- snapshot contracts
- split-policy contracts
- dataset contracts
- model contracts
- policy contracts
- analysis-run artifacts
- report definitions
That makes the abstraction stack more visible as database metadata rather than only as procedure-managed state.
Advanced Example
SHOW MODELS;
SHOW POLICIES;
SHOW DATASETS;
SHOW ANALYSIS RUNS;
SHOW REPORTS;
That is useful when you want to verify the current abstraction execution surface before running:
feature_servesnapshot_builddataset_buildmodel_scorepolicy_decide
Real Use Cases
- Confirm which model and policy contracts are active before applying interventions.
- Confirm which analysis runs are registered before using
APPLY ANALYSIS RUN. - Confirm which abstraction report definitions exist before rendering or refreshing report artifacts.
- Inspect which features a snapshot is wired to before changing the feature set.
- Review which datasets and split policies exist before training or evaluation work.
Real Limitations And Tradeoffs
- These clauses expose catalog definitions, not materialized runtime artifacts.
- They do not show execution freshness, materialization state, or queued refresh work. Those are still procedure-level operational surfaces.
- They are list/discovery clauses, not detailed explainability tools.
SHOW REPORTSlists report definitions stored in the target database. Private Studio layout state and assistant conversation state are separate operational data.