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<h1 class="title">CREATE DATASOURCE TABLE</h1>
<h3 id="description">Description</h3>
<p>The <code class="highlighter-rouge">CREATE TABLE</code> statement defines a new table using a Data Source.</p>
<h3 id="syntax">Syntax</h3>
<div class="language-sql highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="k">CREATE</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="n">IF</span> <span class="k">NOT</span> <span class="k">EXISTS</span> <span class="p">]</span> <span class="n">table_identifier</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">col_name1</span> <span class="n">col_type1</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="k">COMMENT</span> <span class="n">col_comment1</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="p">...</span> <span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">]</span>
<span class="k">USING</span> <span class="n">data_source</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="k">OPTIONS</span> <span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">key1</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">val1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">key2</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">val2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">...</span> <span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="n">PARTITIONED</span> <span class="k">BY</span> <span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">col_name1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">col_name2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">...</span> <span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="n">CLUSTERED</span> <span class="k">BY</span> <span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">col_name3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">col_name4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">...</span> <span class="p">)</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="n">SORTED</span> <span class="k">BY</span> <span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">col_name</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="k">ASC</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="k">DESC</span> <span class="p">],</span> <span class="p">...</span> <span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">]</span>
<span class="k">INTO</span> <span class="n">num_buckets</span> <span class="n">BUCKETS</span> <span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="k">LOCATION</span> <span class="n">path</span> <span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="k">COMMENT</span> <span class="n">table_comment</span> <span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="n">TBLPROPERTIES</span> <span class="p">(</span> <span class="n">key1</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">val1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">key2</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">val2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">...</span> <span class="p">)</span> <span class="p">]</span>
<span class="p">[</span> <span class="k">AS</span> <span class="n">select_statement</span> <span class="p">]</span>
</code></pre></div></div>
<p>Note that, the clauses between the USING clause and the AS SELECT clause can come in
as any order. For example, you can write COMMENT table_comment after TBLPROPERTIES.</p>
<h3 id="parameters">Parameters</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>table_identifier</strong></p>
<p>Specifies a table name, which may be optionally qualified with a database name.</p>
<p><strong>Syntax:</strong> <code class="highlighter-rouge">[ database_name. ] table_name</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>USING data_source</strong></p>
<p>Data Source is the input format used to create the table. Data source can be CSV, TXT, ORC, JDBC, PARQUET, etc.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>PARTITIONED BY</strong></p>
<p>Partitions are created on the table, based on the columns specified.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>CLUSTERED BY</strong></p>
<p>Partitions created on the table will be bucketed into fixed buckets based on the column specified for bucketing.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Bucketing is an optimization technique that uses buckets (and bucketing columns) to determine data partitioning and avoid data shuffle.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>SORTED BY</strong></p>
<p>Determines the order in which the data is stored in buckets. Default is Ascending order.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>LOCATION</strong></p>
<p>Path to the directory where table data is stored, which could be a path on distributed storage like HDFS, etc.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>COMMENT</strong></p>
<p>A string literal to describe the table.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>TBLPROPERTIES</strong></p>
<p>A list of key-value pairs that is used to tag the table definition.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>AS select_statement</strong></p>
<p>The table is populated using the data from the select statement.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="data-source-interaction">Data Source Interaction</h3>
<p>A Data Source table acts like a pointer to the underlying data source. For example, you can create
a table &#8220;foo&#8221; in Spark which points to a table &#8220;bar&#8221; in MySQL using JDBC Data Source. When you
read/write table &#8220;foo&#8221;, you actually read/write table &#8220;bar&#8221;.</p>
<p>In general CREATE TABLE is creating a &#8220;pointer&#8221;, and you need to make sure it points to something
existing. An exception is file source such as parquet, json. If you don&#8217;t specify the LOCATION,
Spark will create a default table location for you.</p>
<p>For CREATE TABLE AS SELECT, Spark will overwrite the underlying data source with the data of the
input query, to make sure the table gets created contains exactly the same data as the input query.</p>
<h3 id="examples">Examples</h3>
<div class="language-sql highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>
<span class="c1">--Use data source</span>
<span class="k">CREATE</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">student</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">id</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">STRING</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">age</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">USING</span> <span class="n">CSV</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="c1">--Use data from another table</span>
<span class="k">CREATE</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">student_copy</span> <span class="k">USING</span> <span class="n">CSV</span>
<span class="k">AS</span> <span class="k">SELECT</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="k">FROM</span> <span class="n">student</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="c1">--Omit the USING clause, which uses the default data source (parquet by default)</span>
<span class="k">CREATE</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">student</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">id</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">STRING</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">age</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="c1">--Specify table comment and properties</span>
<span class="k">CREATE</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">student</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">id</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">STRING</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">age</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">USING</span> <span class="n">CSV</span>
<span class="k">COMMENT</span> <span class="s1">'this is a comment'</span>
<span class="n">TBLPROPERTIES</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'bar'</span><span class="p">);</span>
<span class="c1">--Specify table comment and properties with different clauses order</span>
<span class="k">CREATE</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">student</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">id</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">STRING</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">age</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">USING</span> <span class="n">CSV</span>
<span class="n">TBLPROPERTIES</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'foo'</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">'bar'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">COMMENT</span> <span class="s1">'this is a comment'</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="c1">--Create partitioned and bucketed table</span>
<span class="k">CREATE</span> <span class="k">TABLE</span> <span class="n">student</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">id</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="n">STRING</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">age</span> <span class="nb">INT</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">USING</span> <span class="n">CSV</span>
<span class="n">PARTITIONED</span> <span class="k">BY</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">age</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">CLUSTERED</span> <span class="k">BY</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Id</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">INTO</span> <span class="mi">4</span> <span class="n">buckets</span><span class="p">;</span>
</code></pre></div></div>
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