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 - [Introduction](introduction.md)
 - [Example Usage](example-usage.md)  
-- [Use as a Library](library.md)  
+- [Use as a Library](library.md)
+- [SQL Reference](sql/introduction.md)
+  - [SELECT](sql/select.md)
+  - [DDL](sql/ddl.md)
+    - [CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE](sql/ddl.md)
+
 - [Distributed](distributed/introduction.md)
   - [Create a Ballista Cluster](distributed/deployment.md)
     - [Docker](distributed/standalone.md)
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+<!---
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+
+# DDL
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+<!---
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+
+# SQL Reference
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+<!---
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+
+# SELECT syntax
+
+The queries in DataFusion scan data from tables and return 0 or more rows.
+In this documentation we describe the SQL syntax in DataFusion. 
+
+DataFusion supports the following syntax for queries:
+<code class="language-sql hljs">
+
+[ [WITH](#with-clause) with_query [, ...] ] <br/>
+[SELECT](#select-clause) select_expr [, ...] <br/>
+[ [FROM](#from-clause) from_item [, ...] ] <br/>
+[ [WHERE](#where-clause) condition ] <br/>
+[ [GROUP BY](#group-by-clause) grouping_element [, ...] ] <br/>
+[ [HAVING](#having-clause) condition] <br/>
+[ [UNION](#union-clause) [ ALL | select ] <br/>
+[ [ORDER BY](#order-by-clause) expression [ ASC | DESC ] [, ...] ] <br/>
+[ [LIMIT](#limit-clause) count ] <br/>
+
+</code>
+
+# WITH clause
+
+A with clause allows to give names for queries and reference them by name.
+
+```sql
+WITH x AS (SELECT a, MAX(b) AS b FROM t GROUP BY a)
+SELECT a, b FROM x;
+```
+
+# SELECT clause
+
+
+Example:
+
+```sql
+SELECT a, b, a + b FROM table 
+```
+
+
+# FROM clause
+
+Example:
+```sql
+SELECT t.a FROM table AS t
+```
+
+
+# WHERE clause
+
+Example:
+
+```sql
+SELECT a FROM table WHERE a > 10
+```
+
+# GROUP BY clause
+
+Example:
+
+```sql
+SELECT a, b, MAX(c) FROM table GROUP BY a, b
+```
+
+
+# HAVING clause
+
+Example:
+
+```sql
+SELECT a, b, MAX(c) FROM table GROUP BY a, b HAVING MAX(c) > 10
+```
+
+# UNION clause
+
+Example:
+
+```sql
+SELECT
+    a,
+    b,
+    c
+FROM table1
+UNION ALL
+SELECT
+    a,
+    b,
+    c
+FROM table2
+```
+
+# ORDER BY clause
+
+Orders the results by the referenced expression. By default it uses ascending order (`ASC`).
+This order can be changed to descending by adding `DESC` after the order-by expressions.
+
+Examples:
+
+```sql
+SELECT age, person FROM table ORDER BY age;
+SELECT age, person FROM table ORDER BY age DESC;
+SELECT age, person FROM table ORDER BY age, person DESC;
+```
+
+
+# LIMIT clause
+
+Limits the number of rows to be a maximum of `count` rows. `count` should be a non-negative integer.
+
+Example:
+
+```sql
+SELECT age, person FROM table
+LIMIT 10
+```
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