--- layout: global title: CREATE DATASOURCE TABLE displayTitle: CREATE DATASOURCE 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 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 `CREATE TABLE` statement defines a new table using a Data Source. ### Syntax {% highlight sql %} CREATE TABLE [ IF NOT EXISTS ] table_identifier [ ( col_name1 col_type1 [ COMMENT col_comment1 ], ... ) ] USING data_source [ OPTIONS ( key1=val1, key2=val2, ... ) ] [ PARTITIONED BY ( col_name1, col_name2, ... ) ] [ CLUSTERED BY ( col_name3, col_name4, ... ) [ SORTED BY ( col_name [ ASC | DESC ], ... ) ] INTO num_buckets BUCKETS ] [ LOCATION path ] [ COMMENT table_comment ] [ TBLPROPERTIES ( key1=val1, key2=val2, ... ) ] [ AS select_statement ] {% endhighlight %} ### Parameters
table_identifier
[ database_name. ] table_name
USING data_source
PARTITIONED BY
CLUSTERED BY
SORTED BY
LOCATION
COMMENT
TBLPROPERTIES
AS select_statement