As I said, there is no such functionality built into Flink yet.

A client program can be parameterized with a query and turned into a SQL
client that way.
The submission would work with the regular Flink job client, i.e., it would
pickup the regular Flink config.

Best, Fabian

2017-09-08 10:05 GMT+02:00 kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com>:

> Hi Fabian,
>
> Thanks for the response. I understand the common approach is to write a
> client program and run it however this will not allow me to send queries
> Ad-hoc so Is there anyway for me to submit Calcite SQL to Flink via REST or
> whatever mechanism? Forgot even, the result set once I know there is a way
> to submit Adhoc queries I can figure out a way to write to Kafka.
>
> Thanks,
> kant
>
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Fabian Hueske <fhue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kant,
>>
>> no, there is no such functionality.
>> I'm also not sure how well streaming would work together with the JDBC
>> interface. JDBC has not been designed for continuous streaming queries,
>> i.e., queries that never terminate.
>> Challenges would be to have an infinite, streamable ResultSet (which
>> might be possible) and how to represent retractions, i.e., updates of
>> previously emitted results (I doubt this would work).
>>
>> If a streamable ResultSet was possible, a subset of queries (those that
>> only produce new rows and never have to update emitted results) could be
>> supported.
>>
>> Right now, the approach would be to implement a client program that
>> executes queries and writes their result to a destination like Kafka or a
>> database using a TableSink [1].
>> The community is also discussing a SQL client to submits queries. [2]
>>
>> Best, Fabian
>>
>> [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/
>> dev/table/sourceSinks.html
>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-7594
>>
>>
>> 2017-09-07 21:43 GMT+02:00 kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Does Flink has a JDBC server where I can submit Calcite Streaming
>>> Queries? such that I get Stream of responses back from Flink forever via
>>> JDBC ? What is the standard way to do this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Kant
>>>
>>
>>
>

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