Flink实战（八十四）：flink-sql使用（十一）Flink 与 hive 结合使用（三）Hive Dialect

1 Hive Dialect

Starting from 1.11.0, Flink allows users to write SQL statements in Hive syntax when Hive dialect is used. By providing compatibility with Hive syntax, we aim to improve the interoperability with Hive and reduce the scenarios when users need to switch between Flink and Hive in order to execute different statements.

2 Use Hive Dialect

Flink currently supports two SQL dialects: default and hive. You need to switch to Hive dialect before you can write in Hive syntax. The following describes how to set dialect with SQL Client and Table API. Also notice that you can dynamically switch dialect for each statement you execute. There’s no need to restart a session to use a different dialect.

2.1 SQL Client

SQL dialect can be specified via the table.sql-dialect property. Therefore you can set the initial dialect to