---
title: "Get a Table Instance"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/java/v1/cloud-scale/data-store/get-table-instance/
description: "This page describes the method to fetch the table instance using tableID and name from a table in the Data Store in your Java application with sample code snippets."
last_updated: 2025-11-19T15:07:41Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Data Store"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/data-store/introduction
---

# Get Table Instance

### Get the table instance using tableID

An empty _table instance_ is created as the first step to refer a table and perform its operations.This is done through
the `getTableInstance()` method which actually doesn't fire a server side call. This does not hold any values.

#### Sample Code Snippet 

**Package Imports**

```java
import com.zc.component.object.ZCObject; 
import com.zc.component.object.ZCTable; 
```

```java
//Create a base Object Instance 
ZCObject object = ZCObject.getInstance();
//Get a Table Instance referring the tableID on base object
ZCTable tableMeta =object.getTableInstance(1510000000110121L);

```

### Get the table instance using table name

Table name is passed as an argument here to refer the table, without firing the server side call which is equivalent to
the previous case.

#### Sample Code Snippet 

**Package Imports**

```java
import com.zc.component.object.ZCObject; 
import com.zc.component.object.ZCTable;
```

```java
//Create Base Object Instance 
ZCObject object = ZCObject.getInstance(); 
//Get a Table Instance referring the table ID on base object 
ZCTable tableMeta = object.getTableInstance("SampleTable");

```