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+## A Note About Thrift JDBC server and CLI for Spark SQL
+
+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.
+
+    $ sbt/sbt -Phive-thriftserver assembly
+
+
 ## Configuration
 
 Please refer to the [Configuration guide](http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/configuration.html)
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+# Building Thrift JDBC server and CLI for Spark SQL
+
+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.
+{% highlight bash %}
+mvn -Phive-thriftserver assembly
+{% endhighlight %}
+
 # Spark Tests in Maven
 
 Tests are run by default via the [ScalaTest Maven plugin](http://www.scalatest.org/user_guide/using_the_scalatest_maven_plugin).