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# UNDROP TABLE

Cancels the dropping of the table.

Beginning with ClickHouse version 23.3, you can recover a table in an `Atomic` database with `UNDROP TABLE`
during the period set by [`database_atomic_delay_before_drop_table_sec`](/reference/settings/server-settings/settings/other#database_atomic_delay_before_drop_table_sec) (8 minutes by default) after issuing `DROP TABLE`.
Tables dropped from `Atomic` databases are listed in `system.dropped_tables`.

For a `Shared` database in ClickHouse Cloud, this period is instead controlled by [`database_shared_drop_table_delay_seconds`](/reference/settings/session-settings/database#database_shared_drop_table_delay_seconds), which defaults to 8 hours.
Tables dropped from `Shared` databases aren't listed in `system.dropped_tables`.

If you have a materialized view without a `TO` clause associated with the dropped table, then you will also have to UNDROP the inner table of that view.

<Tip>
  Also see [DROP TABLE](/reference/statements/drop)
</Tip>

Syntax:

```sql theme={null}
UNDROP TABLE [db.]name [UUID '<uuid>'] [ON CLUSTER cluster]
```

**Example**

```sql theme={null}
CREATE TABLE tab
(
    `id` UInt8
)
ENGINE = MergeTree
ORDER BY id;

DROP TABLE tab;

SELECT *
FROM system.dropped_tables
FORMAT Vertical;
```

```response theme={null}
Row 1:
──────
index:                 0
database:              default
table:                 tab
uuid:                  aa696a1a-1d70-4e60-a841-4c80827706cc
engine:                MergeTree
metadata_dropped_path: /var/lib/clickhouse/metadata_dropped/default.tab.aa696a1a-1d70-4e60-a841-4c80827706cc.sql
table_dropped_time:    2023-04-05 14:12:12

1 row in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec. 
```

````sql theme={null}
UNDROP TABLE tab;

SELECT *
FROM system.dropped_tables
FORMAT Vertical;

```response
Ok.

0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec. 
````

```sql theme={null}
DESCRIBE TABLE tab
FORMAT Vertical;
```

```response theme={null}
Row 1:
──────
name:               id
type:               UInt8
default_type:       
default_expression: 
comment:            
codec_expression:   
ttl_expression:     
```