--- layout: global title: INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY displayTitle: INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY 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 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. --- ### Description The `INSERT OVERWRITE DIRECTORY` statement overwrites the existing data in the directory with the new values using a given Spark file format. The inserted rows can be specified by value expressions or result from a query. ### Syntax {% highlight sql %} INSERT OVERWRITE [ LOCAL ] DIRECTORY [ directory_path ] USING file_format [ OPTIONS ( key = val [ , ... ] ) ] { VALUES ( { value | NULL } [ , ... ] ) [ , ( ... ) ] | query } {% endhighlight %} ### Parameters
directory_path
OPTIONS
using path
. The LOCAL
keyword is used to specify that the directory is on the local file system.
file_format
TEXT
, CSV
, JSON
, JDBC
, PARQUET
, ORC
, HIVE
, LIBSVM
, or a fully qualified class name of a custom implementation of org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.FileFormat
.
OPTIONS ( key = val [ , ... ] )
VALUES ( { value | NULL } [ , ... ] ) [ , ( ... ) ]
query
SELECT
statementTABLE
statementFROM
statement