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+## A Note About Thrift JDBC server and CLI for Spark SQL
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+Spark SQL supports Thrift JDBC server and CLI.
+See sql-programming-guide.md for more information about those features.
+You can use those features by setting `-Phive-thriftserver` when building Spark as follows.
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+    $ sbt/sbt -Phive-thriftserver assembly
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 ## Configuration
 
 Please refer to the [Configuration guide](http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/configuration.html)