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### What changes were proposed in this pull request? Document REPAIR TABLE statement in SQL Reference. ### Why are the changes needed? To complete SQL reference. ### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change? Yes. After the change, we will have the following   ### How was this patch tested? Tested using jykyll build --serve Closes #25884 from huaxingao/spark-28800. Authored-by: Huaxin Gao <huaxing@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <sean.owen@databricks.com>
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Description
MSCK REPAIR TABLE recovers all the partitions in the directory of a table and updates the Hive metastore. When creating a table using PARTITIONED BY clause, partitions are generated and registered in the Hive metastore. However, if the partitioned table is created from existing data, partitions are not registered automatically in the Hive metastore. User needs to run MSCK REPAIR TABLE to register the partitions. MSCK REPAIR TABLE on a non-existent table or a table without partitions throws an exception. Another way to recover partitions is to use ALTER TABLE RECOVER PARTITIONS.
Syntax
{% highlight sql %} MSCK REPAIR TABLE table_name {% endhighlight %}
Parameters
table_name- Specifies the name of the table to be repaired.
Examples
{% highlight sql %} -- create a partitioned table from existing data /tmp/namesAndAges.parquet CREATE TABLE t1 (name STRING, age INT) USING parquet PARTITIONED BY (age) location "/tmp/namesAndAges.parquet";
-- SELECT * FROM t1 does not return results SELECT * FROM t1;
-- run MSCK REPAIR TABLE to recovers all the partitions MSCK REPAIR TABLE t1;
-- SELECT * FROM t1 returns results SELECT * FROM t1;
+ -------------- + ------+
| name | age |
+ -------------- + ------+
| Michael | 20 |
+ -------------- + ------+
| Justin | 19 |
+ -------------- + ----- +
| Andy | 30 |
+ -------------- + ----- +
{% endhighlight %}