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and Canceling Queries in the Drill Web UI</a></li>
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+          
+          </ul>
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+        
+          <li class="toctree-l1"><a href="javascript: void(0);">Performance 
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+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/performance-tuning-introduction/">Performance Tuning 
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href="/docs/partition-pruning/">Partition Pruning</a></li>
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/choosing-a-storage-format/">Choosing a Storage Format</a></li>
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a href="javascript: void(0);">Query 
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+              <ul style="display: none">
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+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/query-plans-and-tuning-introduction/">Query Plans and Tuning 
Introduction</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/join-planning-guidelines/">Join Planning Guidelines</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/guidelines-for-optimizing-aggregation/">Guidelines for Optimizing 
Aggregation</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/modifying-query-planning-options/">Modifying Query Planning 
Options</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/sort-based-and-hash-based-memory-constrained-operators/">Sort-Based 
and Hash-Based Memory-Constrained Operators</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/enabling-query-queuing/">Enabling Query Queuing</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/controlling-parallelization-to-balance-performance-with-multi-tenancy/">Controlling
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+            </ul>
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+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a href="javascript: 
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+              <ul style="display: none">
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+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/query-plans/">Query Plans</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/query-profiles/">Query Profiles</a></li>
+              
+            </ul>
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a href="javascript: 
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+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/query-profile-column-descriptions/">Query Profile Column 
Descriptions</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/physical-operators/">Physical Operators</a></li>
+              
+            </ul>
+            
+          
+          </ul>
+        
+      
+        
+          <li class="toctree-l1"><a href="javascript: void(0);">Log and 
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+          <ul style="display: none">
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/log-and-debug-introduction/">Log and Debug Introduction</a></li>
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href="/docs/error-messages/">Error Messages</a></li>
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+          
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/modify-logback-xml/">Modify logback.xml</a></li>
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/review-the-java-stack-trace/">Review the Java Stack Trace</a></li>
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+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/query-audit-logging/">Query Audit Logging</a></li>
+            
+          
+          </ul>
+        
+      
+        
+          <li class="toctree-l1"><a href="javascript: void(0);">SQL 
Reference</a></li>
+          <ul style="display: none">
+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/sql-reference-introduction/">SQL Reference Introduction</a></li>
+            
+          
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a href="javascript: void(0);">Data 
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+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/supported-data-types/">Supported Data Types</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/date-time-and-timestamp/">Date, Time, and Timestamp</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/handling-different-data-types/">Handling Different Data 
Types</a></li>
+              
+            </ul>
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+          
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/lexical-structure/">Lexical Structure</a></li>
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href="/docs/operators/">Operators</a></li>
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+              <ul style="display: none">
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+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/about-sql-function-examples/">About SQL Function Examples</a></li>
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href="/docs/math-and-trig/">Math and Trig</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/data-type-conversion/">Data Type Conversion</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/date-time-functions-and-arithmetic/">Date/Time Functions and 
Arithmetic</a></li>
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+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
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+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/aggregate-and-aggregate-statistical/">Aggregate and Aggregate 
Statistical</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/functions-for-handling-nulls/">Functions for Handling Nulls</a></li>
+              
+            </ul>
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a href="javascript: void(0);">Nested 
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+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/nested-data-limitations/">Nested Data Limitations</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
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+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
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+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/repeated-count/">REPEATED_COUNT</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/repeated-contains/">REPEATED_CONTAINS</a></li>
+              
+            </ul>
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+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/query-directory-functions/">Query Directory Functions</a></li>
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+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a href="javascript: void(0);">SQL 
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+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
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+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/alter-system/">ALTER SYSTEM</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/create-table-as-ctas/">CREATE TABLE AS (CTAS)</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/create-view/">CREATE VIEW</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
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+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
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+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/explain/">EXPLAIN</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/select/">SELECT</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/select-list/">SELECT List</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/from-clause/">FROM Clause</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/group-by-clause/">GROUP BY Clause</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/having-clause/">HAVING Clause</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/limit-clause/">LIMIT Clause</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/offset-clause/">OFFSET Clause</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/order-by-clause/">ORDER BY Clause</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/union-set-operator/">UNION Set Operator</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/where-clause/">WHERE Clause</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/with-clause/">WITH Clause</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/show-databases-and-show-schemas/">SHOW DATABASES and SHOW 
SCHEMAS</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/show-files/">SHOW FILES</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/show-tables/">SHOW TABLES</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/use/">USE</a></li>
+              
+            </ul>
+            
+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a href="javascript: void(0);">SQL 
Conditional Expressions</a></li>
+              <ul style="display: none">
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/case/">CASE</a></li>
+              
+            </ul>
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+          <li class="toctree-l1"><a href="javascript: void(0);">Data Sources 
and File Formats</a></li>
+          <ul style="display: none">
+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/data-sources-and-file-formats-introduction/">Data Sources and File 
Formats Introduction</a></li>
+            
+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/hive-to-drill-data-type-mapping/">Hive-to-Drill Data Type 
Mapping</a></li>
+            
+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/deploying-and-using-a-hive-udf/">Deploying and Using a Hive 
UDF</a></li>
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+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/parquet-format/">Parquet Format</a></li>
+            
+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/json-data-model/">JSON Data Model</a></li>
+            
+          
+          </ul>
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+      
+        
+          <li class="toctree-l1"><a href="javascript: void(0);">Develop Custom 
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+          <ul style="display: none">
+          
+            
+              <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/develop-custom-functions-introduction/">Develop Custom Functions 
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href="/docs/develop-a-simple-function/">Develop a Simple Function</a></li>
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href="/docs/developing-an-aggregate-function/">Developing an Aggregate 
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href="/docs/adding-custom-functions-to-drill/">Adding Custom Functions to 
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href="/docs/using-custom-functions-in-queries/">Using Custom Functions in 
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+        <p>After connecting Drill Explorer to data, the Browse and SQL tabs 
appear on the right side of the console. On the Browse tab, you view any 
metadata that might exist for a schema that you access with Drill. On the SQL 
tab, you preview the results
+of custom queries and save the results as a view.</p>
+
+<h2 id="browsing-data">Browsing Data</h2>
+
+<p>You can browse files and directories if you have permission to read them. 
In the Schemas pane, you expand branches until you find the file or table you 
want to view, and then select it. </p>
+
+<p>Tip: To avoid error messages, which you can ignore, expand directories 
carefully by clicking on the arrow instead of the directory name until you find 
valid data. </p>
+
+<p>In the Browse tab, the Metadata pane displays the structure, if there is 
any, of the selected table or file. The Preview pane displays the actual data. 
The SQL tab displays the statement that returns the data you see in the Browse 
tab.</p>
+
+<p>To update data after making changes in the data source, right-click a file, 
table, view, schema, or directory in the Schemas pane, and select Refresh. The 
scope of the update is limited to the item you right-click.</p>
+
+<p>The following example shows how to browse data using the sample MapR ODBC 
Driver DSN.</p>
+
+<ol>
+<li>Start Drill if necessary.<br></li>
+<li>Start Drill Explorer and connect to the sample DSN.<br></li>
+<li>In the <strong>Schemas</strong> pane of Drill Explorer, on the 
<strong>Browse</strong> tab, navigate to the <code>sample-data</code> directory 
in the dfs.default schema. Click <code>nation.parquet</code>.<br>
+The data from <code>nation.parquet</code> appears in the Preview pane.
+<img src="/docs/img/explorer-nation-data.png" alt="nation parquet"> </li>
+</ol>
+
+<h2 id="defining-a-view">Defining a View</h2>
+
+<p>After browsing data, you can define, preview, and save a view of file-based 
data. On the SQL tab, modify the statement in View Definition SQL to select the 
data you want to view. Click <strong>Create As</strong> to navigate to the 
location for saving the view. You need to save the view to a location that you 
define as <code>writable</code> in the storage plugin definition. After saving 
a view, a message is displayed about the status of the operation. Click 
<strong>Copy</strong> to copy the message.</p>
+
+<p>The following example defines and saves a view of a few columns of 
<code>nation.parquet</code> data.</p>
+
+<ol>
+<li>Start Drill.<br></li>
+<li>Start Drill Explorer and connect to the sample DSN.<br></li>
+<li>In the <strong>Schemas</strong> section on the <strong>Browse</strong> 
tab, navigate to the <code>/sample-data/nation.parquet</code> in the 
<code>dfs.default</code> schema. </li>
+<li><p>On the <strong>SQL</strong> tab, in the <strong>View Definition 
SQL</strong> field, enter a query, as described in the <a href="">Specifying 
Column Names</a>. For example, modify the SELECT statement as follows:</p>
+<div class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-text" 
data-lang="text">SELECT N_NAME, N_REGIONKEY FROM 
`dfs.default`.`./Users/drilluser/drill/apache-drill-1.0.0/sample-data/nation.parquet`
 WHERE N_REGIONKEY IN (2, 4)
+</code></pre></div>
+<p>Do not put a semicolon at the end of the SQL statement.  </p></li>
+<li><p>Click <strong>Preview</strong>.
+<img src="/docs/img/odbc-define-view.png" alt="nation parquet"> </p></li>
+<li><p>Click <strong>Create As</strong>.<br>
+The <em>Create As</em> dialog is displayed.
+<img src="/docs/img/odbc-create-as.png" alt="nation parquet"> </p></li>
+<li><p>From the list of schemas, select the schema that defines the location 
for saving the view. For example, accept the <a 
href="/docs/query-directory-functions/#query-directory-function-example">dfs.tmp</a>
 schema because the default <code>dfs</code> storage plugin defines the 
<code>tmp</code> directory as writable.
+You can save views only to file-based schemas.  </p></li>
+<li><p>In <strong>View Name</strong>, enter a name for the view.<br>
+Do not include spaces in the view name.  </p></li>
+<li><p>Click <strong>Save</strong> and check <strong>Overwrite Existing 
Views</strong> if you want to save over an existing view.<br>
+The status message associated appears.  </p></li>
+<li><p>Click <strong>Close</strong>.</p></li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>Views that you create using the Drill Explorer do not appear under the 
schema
+associated with the data source type. Access the views from
+the file-based schema that you selected when saving the view.</p>
+
+<h2 id="specifying-column-names">Specifying Column Names</h2>
+
+<p>Use of the SQL asterisk (*) selector to return all columns in a table is 
limited. Tableau might not connect to your Drill data source successfully using
+the SQL view that Drill Explorer creates. Modify the
+queries generated by Drill Explorer to specify columns to return based on the 
following
+syntax guidelines, depending on the schema type or file format.</p>
+
+<p>Specify individual columns when defining a view in Drill Explorer instead 
of attempting to select all, as shown in the following examples.</p>
+
+<p><code>SELECT CAST(account[&#39;name&#39;] AS varchar(20)) FROM 
hbase.students</code></p>
+
+<p><code>SELECT CAST(column1 AS varchar(20)) 
FROM</code>dfs<code>.</code>default<code>.</code>./opt/drill/test.parquet``</p>
+
+<p><code>SELECT column1 
FROM</code>dfs<code>.</code>default<code>.</code>./opt/drill/interval.json``</p>
+
+<p>To query nested elements, use the following syntax, where menu is a child 
of column1:</p>
+
+<p><code>SELECT column1[&#39;menu&#39;] 
FROM</code>dfs<code>.</code>default<code>.</code>./opt/drill/interval.json``</p>
+
+<p>You can query elements that are multiple levels deep. Continuing the 
example, if
+menuitem is a child of menu, then use the following syntax:</p>
+
+<p><code>SELECT column1[&#39;menu&#39;][&#39;menuitem&#39;] 
FROM</code>dfs<code>.</code>default<code>.</code>./opt/drill/interval.json``</p>
+
+<h2 id="casting-data-requirements">Casting Data Requirements</h2>
+
+<p>In SQL statements, you need to cast
+binary data to another format explicitly to view the data. For example, the 
following query
+displays results from an HBase database in binary format:<br>
+<code>SELECT account[&#39;name&#39;] FROM hbase.students</code></p>
+
+<p>The following query displays the same results in string format:<br>
+<code>SELECT CAST(account[&#39;name&#39;] AS varchar(20)) FROM
+hbase.students</code></p>
+
+<p>The following query displays results from a Parquet file in binary 
format:<br>
+<code>SELECT column1 
FROM</code>dfs<code>.</code>default<code>.</code>./opt/drill/test.parquet``</p>
+
+<p>The following query displays the same results in string format:</p>
+
+<p><code>SELECT CAST(column1 AS varchar(20)) 
FROM</code>dfs<code>.</code>default<code>.</code>./opt/drill/test.parquet``</p>
+
+<p>You can also cast the data as other data types, such as integer or date 
formats/</p>
+
+    
+      
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@@ -386,7 +386,9 @@
               
                 <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/odbc-configuration-reference/">ODBC Configuration Reference</a></li>
               
-                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/configuring-odbc-on-linux-mac-os-x/">Configuring ODBC on Linux/Mac 
OS X</a></li>
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/configuring-odbc-on-linux/">Configuring ODBC on Linux</a></li>
+              
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/configuring-odbc-on-mac-os-x/">Configuring ODBC on Mac OS X</a></li>
               
                 <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/configuring-odbc-on-windows/">Configuring ODBC on Windows</a></li>
               
@@ -403,7 +405,7 @@
               
                 <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/connecting-drill-explorer-to-data/">Connecting Drill Explorer to 
Data</a></li>
               
-                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/using-drill-explorer-to-browse-data/">Using Drill Explorer to 
Browse Data</a></li>
+                <li class="toctree-l3"><a class="reference internal" 
href="/docs/browsing-data-and-defining-views/">Browsing Data and Defining 
Views</a></li>
               
             </ul>
             

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