def get_table_info(self, table_names: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> str:
        """Get information about specified tables.

        Follows best practices as specified in: Rajkumar et al, 2022
        (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00498)

        If `sample_rows_in_table_info`, the specified number of sample rows will be
        appended to each table description. This can increase performance as
        demonstrated in the paper.
        """
        all_table_names = self.get_usable_table_names()
        if table_names is not None:
            missing_tables = set(table_names).difference(all_table_names)
            if missing_tables:
                raise ValueError(f"table_names {missing_tables} not found in database")
            all_table_names = table_names

        meta_tables = [
            tbl
            for tbl in self._metadata.sorted_tables
            if tbl.name in set(all_table_names)
               and not (self.dialect == "sqlite" and tbl.name.startswith("sqlite_"))
        ]

        tables = []
        for table in meta_tables:
            if self._custom_table_info and table.name in self._custom_table_info:
                tables.append(self._custom_table_info[table.name])
                continue

            # Ignore JSON datatyped columns
            for k, v in table.columns.items():
                if type(v.type) is NullType:
                    table._columns.remove(v)

            # add create table command
            create_table = str(CreateTable(table).compile(self._engine))
            table_info = f"{create_table.rstrip()}"
            has_extra_info = (
                    self._indexes_in_table_info or self._sample_rows_in_table_info
            )
            if has_extra_info:
                table_info += "\n\n/*"
            if self._indexes_in_table_info:
                table_info += f"\n{self._get_table_indexes(table)}\n"
            if self._sample_rows_in_table_info:
                table_info += f"\n{self._get_sample_rows(table)}\n"
            if has_extra_info:
                table_info += "*/"
            tables.append(table_info)
        tables.sort()
        final_str = "\n\n".join(tables)
        return final_str
Get information about specified tables.

        Follows best practices as specified in: Rajkumar et al, 2022
        (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00498)

        If `sample_rows_in_table_info`, the specified number of sample rows will be
        appended to each table description. This can increase performance as
        demonstrated in the paper.
        
src/aios/environment/sql_database.py