### What changes were proposed in this pull request? Standardize sql reference ### Why are the changes needed? To have consistent docs ### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change? Yes ### How was this patch tested? Tested using jykyll build --serve Closes #26721 from huaxingao/spark-30085. Authored-by: Huaxin Gao <huaxing@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sean.owen@databricks.com>
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Description
DROP TABLE
deletes the table and removes the directory associated with the table from the file system
if the table is not EXTERNAL
table. If the table is not present it throws an exception.
In case of an external table, only the associated metadata information is removed from the metastore database.
Syntax
{% highlight sql %} DROP TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] table_identifier {% endhighlight %}
Parameter
IF EXISTS
- If specified, no exception is thrown when the table does not exists.
table_identifier
-
Specifies the table name to be dropped. The table name may be optionally qualified with a database name.
Syntax:[ database_name. ] table_name
Example
{% highlight sql %}
-- Assumes a table named employeetable
exists.
DROP TABLE employeetable;
+---------+--+
| Result |
+---------+--+
+---------+--+
-- Assumes a table named employeetable
exists in the userdb
database
DROP TABLE userdb.employeetable;
+---------+--+
| Result |
+---------+--+
+---------+--+
-- Assumes a table named employeetable
does not exists.
-- Throws exception
DROP TABLE employeetable;
Error: org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Table or view not found: employeetable;
(state=,code=0)
-- Assumes a table named employeetable
does not exists,Try with IF EXISTS
-- this time it will not throw exception
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS employeetable;
+---------+--+
| Result |
+---------+--+
+---------+--+
{% endhighlight %}