CreateDataSet

Use the CreateDataSet API operation to create a dataset. Following is an example AWS CLI command for this operation.

AWS CLI

aws quicksight create-data-set 
    --aws-account-id AWSACCOUNTID 
    --data-set-id DATASETID 
    --name NAME 
    --physical-table-map '{"PhysicalTableMap":{"string":{"CustomSql":{"Columns":[{"Name":"string","Type":"string"}],"DataSourceArn":"string","Name":"string","SqlQuery":"string"},"RelationalTable":{"Catalog":"string","DataSourceArn":"string","InputColumns":[{"Name":"string","Type":"string"}],"Name":"string","Schema":"string"},"S3Source":{"DataSourceArn":"string","InputColumns":[{"Name":"string","Type":"string"}],"UploadSettings":{"ContainsHeader":boolean,"Delimiter":"string","Format":"string","StartFromRow":number,"TextQualifier":"string"}}}}' 
    --import-mode DIRECT_QUERY

You can also make this command using a CLI skeleton file with the following command. For more information about CLI skeleton files, see Use CLI skeleton files.

aws quicksight create-data-set
    --cli-input-json file://createdataset.json

For more information about the CreateDataSet API operation, see CreateDataSet in the Amazon QuickSight API Reference.