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Comment: add examples of Create/Alter/Show/Drop Index

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Simple Examples

This section gives some indexing examples adapted from the Hive test suite.

Create/build, show, and drop index:

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CREATE INDEX table01_index ON TABLE table01 (column2) AS 'COMPACT';
SHOW INDEX ON table01;
DROP INDEX table01_index ON table01;

Create then build, show formatted (with column names), and drop index:

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CREATE INDEX table02_index ON TABLE table02 (column3) AS 'COMPACT' WITH DEFERRED REBUILD;
ALTER INDEX table02_index ON table2 REBUILD;
SHOW FORMATTED INDEX ON table02;
DROP INDEX table02_index ON table02;

Create bitmap index, build, show, and drop:

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CREATE INDEX table03_index ON TABLE table03 (column4) AS 'BITMAP' WITH DEFERRED REBUILD;
ALTER INDEX table03_index ON table03 REBUILD;
SHOW FORMATTED INDEX ON table03;
DROP INDEX table03_index ON table03;

Create index in a new table:

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CREATE INDEX table04_index ON TABLE table04 (column5) AS 'COMPACT' WITH DEFERRED REBUILD IN TABLE table04_index_table;

Create index stored as RCFile:

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CREATE INDEX table05_index ON TABLE table05 (column6) AS 'COMPACT' STORED AS RCFILE;

Create index stored as text file:

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CREATE INDEX table06_index ON TABLE table06 (column7) AS 'COMPACT' ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\t' STORED AS TEXTFILE;

Create index with index properties:

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CREATE INDEX table07_index ON TABLE table07 (column8) AS 'COMPACT' IDXPROPERTIES ("prop1"="value1", "prop2"="value2");

Create index with table properties:

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CREATE INDEX table08_index ON TABLE table08 (column9) AS 'COMPACT' TBLPROPERTIES ("prop3"="value3", "prop4"="value4");

Drop index if exists:

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DROP INDEX IF EXISTS table09_index ON table09;