http://docs.datastax.com/en/datastax_enterprise/4.6/datastax_enterprise/spark/sparkSqlSupportedSyntax.html

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Richard Hillegas <rhil...@us.ibm.com>
wrote:

> The latest Derby SQL Reference manual (version 10.11) can be found here:
> https://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.11/ref/index.html. It is, indeed,
> very useful to have a comprehensive reference guide. The Derby build
> scripts can also produce a BNF description of the grammar--but that is not
> part of the public documentation for the project. The BNF is trivial to
> generate because it is an artifact of the JavaCC grammar generator which
> Derby uses.
>
> I appreciate the difficulty of maintaining a formal reference guide for a
> rapidly evolving SQL dialect like Spark's.
>
> A machine-generated BNF, however, is easy to imagine. But perhaps not so
> easy to implement. Spark's SQL grammar is implemented in Scala, extending
> the DSL support provided by the Scala language. I am new to programming in
> Scala, so I don't know whether the Scala ecosystem provides any good tools
> for reverse-engineering a BNF from a class which extends
> scala.util.parsing.combinator.syntactical.StandardTokenParsers.
>
> Thanks,
> -Rick
>
> vivekw...@gmail.com wrote on 09/11/2015 05:05:47 AM:
>
> > From: vivek bhaskar <vivekw...@gmail.com>
> > To: Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com>
> > Cc: user <user@spark.apache.org>
> > Date: 09/11/2015 05:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: Is there any Spark SQL reference manual?
> > Sent by: vivekw...@gmail.com
>
> >
> > Hi Ted,
> >
> > The link you mention do not have complete list of supported syntax.
> > For example, few supported syntax are listed as "Supported Hive
> > features" but that do not claim to be exhaustive (even if it is so,
> > one has to filter out a lot many lines from Hive QL reference and
> > still will not be sure if its all - due to versions mismatch).
> >
> > Quickly searching online gives me link for another popular open
> > source project which has good sql reference: https://db.apache.org/
> > derby/docs/10.1/ref/crefsqlj23296.html.
> >
> > I had similar expectation when I was looking for all supported DDL
> > and DML syntax along with their extensions. For example,
> > a. Select expression along with supported extensions i.e. where
> > clause, group by, different supported joins etc.
> > b. SQL format for Create, Insert, Alter table etc.
> > c. SQL for Insert, Update, Delete, etc along with their extensions.
> > d. Syntax for view creation, if supported
> > e. Syntax for explain mechanism
> > f. List of supported functions, operators, etc. I can see that 100s
> > of function are added in 1.5 but then you have to make lot of cross
> > check from code to JIRA tickets.
> >
> > So I wanted a piece of documentation that can provide all such
> > information at a single place.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vivek
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You may have seen this:
> > https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html
> >
> > Please suggest what should be added.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:43 AM, vivek bhaskar <vivekw...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for a reference manual for Spark SQL some thing like
> > many database vendors have. I could find one for hive ql https://
> > cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual but not
> > anything specific to spark sql.
> >
> > Please suggest. SQL reference specific to latest release will be of
> > great help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vivek
>
>

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