spark-instrumented-optimizer/docs/sql-ref-syntax-qry-select-distribute-by.md
Huaxin Gao 75da05038b [MINOR][SQL][DOCS] Remove two leading spaces from sql tables
### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Remove two leading spaces from sql tables.

### Why are the changes needed?

Follow the format of other references such as https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/constructs/join.html, https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/statements_10002.htm, https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/sql-select.html.

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

before
```
SELECT * FROM  test;
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```
after
```
SELECT * FROM  test;
+-+
...
+-+
```

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

Closes #28348 from huaxingao/sql-format.

Authored-by: Huaxin Gao <huaxing@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: gatorsmile <gatorsmile@gmail.com>
2020-05-01 10:11:43 -07:00

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Description

The DISTRIBUTE BY clause is used to repartition the data based on the input expressions. Unlike the CLUSTER BY clause, this does not sort the data within each partition.

Syntax

{% highlight sql %} DISTRIBUTE BY { expression [ , ... ] } {% endhighlight %}

Parameters

expression
Specifies combination of one or more values, operators and SQL functions that results in a value.

Examples

{% highlight sql %} CREATE TABLE person (name STRING, age INT); INSERT INTO person VALUES ('Zen Hui', 25), ('Anil B', 18), ('Shone S', 16), ('Mike A', 25), ('John A', 18), ('Jack N', 16);

-- Reduce the number of shuffle partitions to 2 to illustrate the behavior of DISTRIBUTE BY. -- It's easier to see the clustering and sorting behavior with less number of partitions. SET spark.sql.shuffle.partitions = 2;

-- Select the rows with no ordering. Please note that without any sort directive, the result -- of the query is not deterministic. It's included here to just contrast it with the -- behavior of DISTRIBUTE BY. The query below produces rows where age columns are not -- clustered together. SELECT age, name FROM person; +---+-------+ |age| name| +---+-------+ | 16|Shone S| | 25|Zen Hui| | 16| Jack N| | 25| Mike A| | 18| John A| | 18| Anil B| +---+-------+

-- Produces rows clustered by age. Persons with same age are clustered together. -- Unlike CLUSTER BY clause, the rows are not sorted within a partition. SELECT age, name FROM person DISTRIBUTE BY age; +---+-------+ |age| name| +---+-------+ | 25|Zen Hui| | 25| Mike A| | 18| John A| | 18| Anil B| | 16|Shone S| | 16| Jack N| +---+-------+ {% endhighlight %}