Github user alpinegizmo commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5913#discussion_r184962653 --- Diff: docs/dev/table/sqlClient.md --- @@ -0,0 +1,539 @@ +--- +title: "SQL Client" +nav-parent_id: tableapi +nav-pos: 100 +is_beta: true +--- +<!-- +Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one +or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file +distributed with this work for additional information +regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file +to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the +"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance +with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + + http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + +Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, +software distributed under the License is distributed on an +"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY +KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the +specific language governing permissions and limitations +under the License. +--> + + +Although Flinkâs Table & SQL API allows to declare queries in the SQL language. A SQL query needs to be embedded within a table program that is written either in Java or Scala. The table program needs to be packaged with a build tool before it can be submitted to a cluster. This limits the usage of Flink to mostly Java/Scala programmers. --- End diff -- Flinkâs Table & SQL API makes it possible to work with queries written in the SQL language, but these queries need to be embedded within a table program that is written in either Java or Scala. Moreover, these programs need to be packaged with a build tool before being submitted to a cluster. This more or less limits the usage of Flink to Java/Scala programmers.
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