[SPARK-31419][SQL][DOCS] Document Table-valued Function and Inline Table

### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Document Table-valued Function and Inline Table

### Why are the changes needed?
To make SQL Reference complete

### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
Yes

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Also, linked the newly added pages to select statement

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### How was this patch tested?
Manually build and check

Closes #28185 from huaxingao/tvf.

Authored-by: Huaxin Gao <huaxing@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <srowen@gmail.com>
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url: sql-ref-syntax-qry-select-setops.html
- text: TABLESAMPLE
url: sql-ref-syntax-qry-sampling.html
- text: Table-valued Function
url: sql-ref-syntax-qry-select-tvf.html
- text: Inline Table
url: sql-ref-syntax-qry-select-inline-table.html
- text: EXPLAIN
url: sql-ref-syntax-qry-explain.html
- text: Auxiliary Statements

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---
layout: global
title: Inline Table
displayTitle: Inline Table
license: |
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
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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.
---
### Description
An inline table is a temporary table created using a VALUES clause.
### Syntax
{% highlight sql %}
VALUES ( expression [ , ... ] ) [ table_alias ]
{% endhighlight %}
### Parameters
<dl>
<dt><code><em>expression</em></code></dt>
<dd>
Specifies a combination of one or more values, operators and SQL functions that results in a value.
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt><code><em>table_alias</em></code></dt>
<dd>
Specifies a temporary name with an optional column name list. <br><br>
<b>Syntax:</b>
<code>
[ AS ] table_name [ ( column_name [ , ... ] ) ]
</code>
</dd>
</dl>
### Examples
{% highlight sql %}
-- single row, without a table alias
SELECT * FROM VALUES ("one", 1);
+----+----+
|col1|col2|
+----+----+
| one| 1|
+----+----+
-- three rows with a table alias
SELECT * FROM VALUES ("one", 1), ("two", 2), ("three", null) AS data(a, b);
+-----+----+
| a| b|
+-----+----+
| one| 1|
| two| 2|
|three|null|
+-----+----+
-- complex types with a table alias
SELECT * FROM VALUES ("one", array(0, 1)), ("two", array(2, 3)) AS data(a, b);
+---+------+
| a| b|
+---+------+
|one|[0, 1]|
|two|[2, 3]|
+---+------+
{% endhighlight %}
### Related Statement
* [SELECT](sql-ref-syntax-qry-select.html)

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---
layout: global
title: Table-valued Functions (TVF)
displayTitle: Table-valued Functions (TVF)
license: |
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
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
---
### Description
A table-valued function (TVF) is a function that returns a relation or a set of rows.
### Syntax
{% highlight sql %}
function_name ( expression [ , ... ] ) [ table_alias ]
{% endhighlight %}
### Parameters
<dl>
<dt><code><em>expression</em></code></dt>
<dd>
Specifies a combination of one or more values, operators and SQL functions that results in a value.
</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
<dt><code><em>table_alias</em></code></dt>
<dd>
Specifies a temporary name with an optional column name list. <br><br>
<b>Syntax:</b>
<code>
[ AS ] table_name [ ( column_name [ , ... ] ) ]
</code>
</dd>
</dl>
### Supported Table-valued Functions
<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr><th style="width:25%">Function</th><th>Argument Type(s)</th><th>Description</th></tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td><b> range </b>( <i>end</i> )</td>
<td> Long </td>
<td>Creates a table with a single <code>LongType</code> column named <code>id</code>, containing rows in a range from 0 to <code>end</code> (exclusive) with step value 1.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b> range </b>( <i> start, end</i> )</td>
<td> Long, Long </td>
<td width="60%">Creates a table with a single <code>LongType</code> column named <code>id</code>, containing rows in a range from <code>start</code> to <code>end</code> (exclusive) with step value 1.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b> range </b>( <i> start, end, step</i> )</td>
<td> Long, Long, Long </td>
<td width="60%">Creates a table with a single <code>LongType</code> column named <code>id</code>, containing rows in a range from <code>start</code> to <code>end</code> (exclusive) with <code>step</code> value.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b> range </b>( <i> start, end, step, numPartitions</i> )</td>
<td> Long, Long, Long, Int </td>
<td width="60%">Creates a table with a single <code>LongType</code> column named <code>id</code>, containing rows in a range from <code>start</code> to <code>end</code> (exclusive) with <code>step</code> value, with partition number <code>numPartitions</code> specified. </td>
</tr>
</table>
### Examples
{% highlight sql %}
-- range call with end
SELECT * FROM range(6 + cos(3));
+---+
| id|
+---+
| 0|
| 1|
| 2|
| 3|
| 4|
+---+
-- range call with start and end
SELECT * FROM range(5, 10);
+---+
| id|
+---+
| 5|
| 6|
| 7|
| 8|
| 9|
+---+
-- range call with numPartitions
SELECT * FROM range(0, 10, 2, 200);
+---+
| id|
+---+
| 0|
| 2|
| 4|
| 6|
| 8|
+---+
-- range call with a table alias
SELECT * FROM range(5, 8) AS test;
+---+
| id|
+---+
| 5|
| 6|
| 7|
+---+
{% endhighlight %}
### Related Statement
* [SELECT](sql-ref-syntax-qry-select.html)

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Specifies a source of input for the query. It can be one of the following:
<ol>
<li>Table relation</li>
<li>Join relation</li>
<li>Table valued function</li>
<li>Inlined table</li>
<li><a href="sql-ref-syntax-qry-select-join.html">Join relation</a></li>
<li><a href="sql-ref-syntax-qry-select-tvf.html">Table-value function</a></li>
<li><a href="sql-ref-syntax-qry-select-inline-table.html">Inline table</a></li>
<li>Subquery</li>
</ol>
</dd>