docs/topics/impala_langref_sql.xml

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<concept id="langref_sql">

  <title>Impala SQL Statements</title>
  <titlealts audience="PDF"><navtitle>SQL Statements</navtitle></titlealts>
  <prolog>
    <metadata>
      <data name="Category" value="Impala"/>
      <data name="Category" value="SQL"/>
      <data name="Category" value="Developers"/>
      <data name="Category" value="Data Analysts"/>
    </metadata>
  </prolog>

  <conbody>

    <p>
      The Impala SQL dialect supports a range of standard elements, plus some extensions for Big Data use cases
      related to data loading and data warehousing.
    </p>

    <note>
      <p>
        In the <cmdname>impala-shell</cmdname> interpreter, a semicolon at the end of each statement is required.
        Since the semicolon is not actually part of the SQL syntax, we do not include it in the syntax definition
        of each statement, but we do show it in examples intended to be run in <cmdname>impala-shell</cmdname>.
      </p>
    </note>

    <p audience="PDF" outputclass="toc all">
      The following sections show the major SQL statements that you work with in Impala:
    </p>
  </conbody>
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