dilipbiswal commented on a change in pull request #25522:
[SPARK-28787][DOC][SQL]Document LOAD DATA statement in SQL Reference
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/25522#discussion_r319735694
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File path: docs/sql-ref-syntax-dml-load.md
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limitations under the License.
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-**This page is under construction**
+### Description
+`LOAD DATA` loads data from a directoy or a file into a table or into a
partition in the table. A partition spec should be specified whenever the
target table is partitioned. The `LOAD DATA` statement can only be used with
tables created using the Hive format.
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+### Syntax
+{% highlight sql %}
+LOAD DATA [ LOCAL ] INPATH path [ OVERWRITE ] INTO TABLE table_name
+ [ PARTITION ( partition_col_name [ = partition_col_val ] [ , ... ] ) ]
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+### Parameters
+<dl>
+ <dt><code><em>path</em></code></dt>
+ <dd>Path of the file system.</dd>
Review comment:
@huaxingao Also seems like this path can be both an absolute path or
relative path. Do we need to mention that here ?
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