public Table getTable(final String tableName) throws HiveException {
    return this.getTable(tableName, true);
  }
Returns metadata for the table named tableName
@param tableName the name of the table
@return the table metadata
@throws HiveException if there's an internal error or if the
table doesn't exist
ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/metadata/Hive.java