### What changes were proposed in this pull request? A few improvements to the sql ref SELECT doc: 1. correct the syntax of SELECT query 2. correct the default of null sort order 3. correct the GROUP BY syntax 4. several minor fixes ### Why are the changes needed? refine document ### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change? N/A ### How was this patch tested? N/A Closes #27866 from cloud-fan/doc. Authored-by: Wenchen Fan <wenchen@databricks.com> Signed-off-by: Dongjoon Hyun <dongjoon@apache.org>
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Spark supports a SELECT
statement and conforms to the ANSI SQL standard. Queries are
used to retrieve result sets from one or more tables. The following section
describes the overall query syntax and the sub-sections cover different constructs
of a query along with examples.
Syntax
{% highlight sql %} [ WITH with_query [ , ... ] ] select_statement [ { UNION | INTERSECT | EXCEPT } [ ALL | DISTINCT ] select_statement, ... ] [ ORDER BY { expression [ ASC | DESC ] [ NULLS { FIRST | LAST } ] [ , ...] } ] [ SORT BY { expression [ ASC | DESC ] [ NULLS { FIRST | LAST } ] [ , ...] } ] [ CLUSTER BY { expression [ , ...] } ] [ DISTRIBUTE BY { expression [, ...] } ] [ WINDOW { named_window [ , WINDOW named_window, ... ] } ] [ LIMIT { ALL | expression } ] {% endhighlight %}
While select_statement
is defined as
{% highlight sql %}
SELECT [ hints , ... ] [ ALL | DISTINCT ] { named_expression [ , ... ] }
FROM { from_item [ , ...] }
[ WHERE boolean_expression ]
[ GROUP BY expression [ , ...] ]
[ HAVING boolean_expression ]
{% endhighlight %}
Parameters
with_query
- Specifies the common table expressions (CTEs) before the main query block. These table expressions are allowed to be referenced later in the FROM clause. This is useful to abstract out repeated subquery blocks in the FROM clause and improves readability of the query.
hints
- Hints can be specified to help spark optimizer make better planning decisions. Currently spark supports hints that influence selection of join strategies and repartitioning of the data.
ALL
- Select all matching rows from the relation and is enabled by default.
DISTINCT
- Select all matching rows from the relation after removing duplicates in results.
named_expression
-
An expression with an assigned name. In general, it denotes a column expression.
Syntax:expression [AS] [alias]
from_item
-
Specifies a source of input for the query. It can be one of the following:
- Table relation
- Join relation
- Table valued function
- Inlined table
- Subquery
WHERE
- Filters the result of the FROM clause based on the supplied predicates.
GROUP BY
- Specifies the expressions that are used to group the rows. This is used in conjunction with aggregate functions (MIN, MAX, COUNT, SUM, AVG, etc.) to group rows based on the grouping expressions and aggregate values in each group.
HAVING
- Specifies the predicates by which the rows produced by GROUP BY are filtered. The HAVING clause is used to filter rows after the grouping is performed. If HAVING is specified without GROUP BY, it indicates a GROUP BY without grouping expressions (global aggregate).
ORDER BY
-
Specifies an ordering of the rows of the complete result set of the query. The output rows are ordered
across the partitions. This parameter is mutually exclusive with
SORT BY
,CLUSTER BY
andDISTRIBUTE BY
and can not be specified together. SORT BY
-
Specifies an ordering by which the rows are ordered within each partition. This parameter is mutually
exclusive with
ORDER BY
andCLUSTER BY
and can not be specified together. CLUSTER BY
-
Specifies a set of expressions that is used to repartition and sort the rows. Using this clause has
the same effect of using
DISTRIBUTE BY
andSORT BY
together. DISTRIBUTE BY
-
Specifies a set of expressions by which the result rows are repartitioned. This parameter is mutually
exclusive with
ORDER BY
andCLUSTER BY
and can not be specified together. LIMIT
-
Specifies the maximum number of rows that can be returned by a statement or subquery. This clause
is mostly used in the conjunction with
ORDER BY
to produce a deterministic result. boolean_expression
- Specifies an expression with a return type of boolean.
expression
- Specifies a combination of one or more values, operators, and SQL functions that evaluates to a value.
named_window
- Specifies aliases for one or more source window specifications. The source window specifications can be referenced in the widow definitions in the query.