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new 71aeffbe docs: add FAQ about SQL dialect (#895)
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commit 71aeffbe865f59084a5f9db6d9341ac03d9268be
Author: David Li <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Jul 12 13:48:48 2023 -0400
docs: add FAQ about SQL dialect (#895)
Fixes #892.
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@@ -145,3 +145,16 @@ JDBC driver in a bespoke Arrow-based API.
.. _arrow-jdbc:
https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.arrow/arrow-jdbc/11.0.0
.. _Turbodbc: https://turbodbc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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+What is the ADBC SQL dialect?
+=============================
+
+Trick question! ADBC is not a SQL dialect. All an ADBC driver is
+required to do, is pass your query string to the database and get the
+result set as Arrow data. In that respect, it's like JDBC. (ODBC has
+a "standard" SQL dialect it defines; ADBC does not do this.)
+
+For a project that does try to tackle the problem of defining a
+vendor-independent query language, see Substrait_.
+
+.. _Substrait: https://substrait.io/
