Running a Drill Query from SQuirreL
About this task
Once SQuirreL is successfully connected to your cluster through the Drill JDBC Driver, you can issue queries from the SQuirreL client. Run a test query on some sample data included in the Drill installation to test the Drill connection.
To query sample data with Squirrel, complete the following steps:
Procedure
- Click the SQL tab.
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Enter the following query in the query box:
SELECT * FROM cp.`employee.json`; - Press Ctrl+Enter to run the query. The following query results display.