I was looking for the implicit table creation in a Select statement without 
using CREATE TABLE table AS ....
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From: Ted Dunning [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 10:40 AM
To: user
Subject: Re: One more with Excepting Columns by name

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Andrew Evans <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I ended up with this. I just don't know why some things don't exist. Some,
> I think are new but others such as being able to read strings as json from
> a database would be really helpful. Being able to read in Json, Hstore, and
> XML from PostgreSQL like it were on the file system would be great. Thanks
> for the help. The tool is really beneficial in lowering maintenance time
> costs for ETL.


You can read read strings that contain json as if they were json data
already.

See https://drill.apache.org/docs/data-type-conversion/

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