spark-instrumented-optimizer/docs/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-create-table.md
Wenchen Fan ef90f1422f [SPARK-30878][SQL][DOC] Improve the CREATE TABLE document
### What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Improve the CREATE TABLE document:
1. mention that some clauses can come in as any order.
2. refine the description for some parameters.
3. mention how data source table interacts with data source
4. make the examples consistent between data source and hive serde tables.

### Why are the changes needed?

improve doc

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

no

### How was this patch tested?

N/A

Closes #27638 from cloud-fan/doc.

Authored-by: Wenchen Fan <wenchen@databricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Wenchen Fan <wenchen@databricks.com>
2020-02-20 13:07:52 +08:00

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Description

CREATE TABLE statement is used to define a table in an existing database.

The CREATE statements: