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CREATE [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name
  [(col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)]
  [COMMENT table_comment]
  [PARTITIONED BY (col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)]
  [CLUSTERED BY (col_name, col_name, ...) [SORTED BY (col_name [ASC|DESC], ...)] INTO num_buckets BUCKETS]
  [SKEWED BY (col_name, col_name, ...) ON ([(col_value, col_value, ...), ...|col_value, col_value, ...]) (Note: only available starting with 0.10.0)]
  [
   [ROW FORMAT row_format] [STORED AS file_format]
   | STORED BY 'storage.handler.class.name' [WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (...)]  (Note: only available starting with 0.6.0)
  ]
  [LOCATION hdfs_path]
  [TBLPROPERTIES (property_name=property_value, ...)]  (Note: only available starting with 0.6.0)
  [AS select_statement]  (Note: this feature is only available starting with 0.5.0, and is not supported when creating external tables.)

CREATE [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name
  LIKE existing_table_or_view_name
  [LOCATION hdfs_path]

data_type
  : primitive_type
  | array_type
  | map_type
  | struct_type
  | union_type (Note: Only available starting with Hive 0.7.0) - needs documentation

primitive_type
  : TINYINT
  | SMALLINT
  | INT
  | BIGINT
  | BOOLEAN
  | FLOAT
  | DOUBLE
  | STRING
  | BINARY (Note: Only available starting with Hive 0.8.0)
  | TIMESTAMP (Note: Only available starting with Hive 0.8.0)
  | DECIMAL (Note: Only available starting with Hive 0.11.0)

array_type
  : ARRAY < data_type >

map_type
  : MAP < primitive_type, data_type >

struct_type
  : STRUCT < col_name : data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...>

union_type
   : UNIONTYPE < data_type, data_type, ... >

row_format
  : DELIMITED [FIELDS TERMINATED BY char [ESCAPED BY char]] [COLLECTION ITEMS TERMINATED BY char]
        [MAP KEYS TERMINATED BY char] [LINES TERMINATED BY char]
  | SERDE serde_name [WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (property_name=property_value, property_name=property_value, ...)]

file_format:
  : SEQUENCEFILE
  | TEXTFILE
  | RCFILE     (Note: only available starting with 0.6.0)
  | ORC        (Note: only available starting with 0.11.0)
  | INPUTFORMAT input_format_classname OUTPUTFORMAT output_format_classname