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### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Document WHERE Clause of SELECT statement in SQL Reference Guide. I

### Why are the changes needed?
Currently Spark lacks documentation on the supported SQL constructs causing
confusion among users who sometimes have to look at the code to understand the
usage. This is aimed at addressing this issue.

### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
Yes.

**Before:**
There was no documentation for this.
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### How was this patch tested?
Tested using jykyll build --serve

Closes #27282 from dilipbiswal/sql-ref-select-where.

Authored-by: Dilip Biswal <dkbiswal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <srowen@gmail.com>
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layout: global
title: SELECT
displayTitle: WHERE clause
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---
The <code>WHERE</code> clause is used to limit the results of the <code>FROM</code>
clause of query or subquery based on the specified condition.

### Syntax
{% highlight sql %}
WHERE boolean_expression
{% endhighlight %}

### Parameters
<dl>
<dt><code><em>boolean_expression</em></code></dt>
<dd>
Specifies any expression that evaluates to a result type <code>boolean</code>. Two or
more expressions may be combined together using the logical
operators ( <code>AND</code>, <code>OR</code> ).
</dd>
</dl>

### Examples
{% highlight sql %}
CREATE TABLE person (id INT, name STRING, age INT);
INSERT INTO person VALUES (100, 'John', 30),
(200, 'Mary', NULL),
(300, 'Mike', 80),
(400, 'Dan', 50);

-- Comparison operator in `WHERE` clause.
SELECT * FROM person WHERE id > 200 ORDER BY id;
+---+----+---+
|id |name|age|
+---+----+---+
|300|Mike|80 |
|400|Dan |50 |
+---+----+---+

-- Comparison and logical operators in `WHERE` clause.
SELECT * FROM person WHERE id = 200 OR id = 300 ORDER BY id;
+---+----+----+
|id |name|age |
+---+----+----+
|200|Mary|null|
|300|Mike|80 |
+---+----+----+

-- ISNULL expression in `WHERE` clause.
SELECT * FROM person WHERE id > 300 OR age IS NULL ORDER BY id;
+---+----+----+
|id |name|age |
+---+----+----+
|200|Mary|null|
|400|Dan |50 |
+---+----+----+

-- Function expression in `WHERE` clause.
SELECT * FROM person WHERE length(name) > 3 ORDER BY id;
+---+----+----+
|id |name|age |
+---+----+----+
|100|John|30 |
|200|Mary|null|
|300|Mike|80 |
+---+----+----+

-- `BETWEEN` expression in `WHERE` clause.
SELECT * FROM person WHERE id BETWEEN 200 AND 300 ORDER BY id;
+---+----+----+
| id|name| age|
+---+----+----+
|200|Mary|null|
|300|Mike| 80|
+---+----+----+

-- Scalar Subquery in `WHERE` clause.
SELECT * FROM person WHERE age > (SELECT avg(age) FROM person);
+---+----+---+
|id |name|age|
+---+----+---+
|300|Mike|80 |
+---+----+---+

-- Correlated column reference in `WHERE` clause of subquery.
SELECT * FROM person AS parent
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM person AS child
WHERE parent.id = child.id AND child.age IS NULL
);
+---+----+----+
|id |name|age |
+---+----+----+
|200|Mary|null|
+---+----+----+

{% endhighlight %}

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