To create new Parquet entities, use CREATE TABLE statements.

CREATE TABLE Syntax

The CREATE TABLE statement specifies the table name and a comma-separated list of column names and the primary keys of the table, as shown in the following example:

CREATE TABLE <table_name> [ IF [ NOT EXISTS ] ]
( 
  { 
     <column_name> <data_type> 
     [ NOT NULL ] 
     [ DEFAULT <literal> ] 
     [ PRIMARY KEY ] 
     [ UNIQUE ] 
  } |  PRIMARY KEY ( <column_name> [ , ... ] ) 
  [ , ... ]
)

Note: For Parquet, the CREATE TABLE Statements only works when using with Batch Processing for bulk insert.

The following example statement creates a MyCustomers table on the Parquet server with name, age, and address columns:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS [MyCustomers] (name VARCHAR(20), age INT, address VARCHAR(20))