diff --git a/src/main/java/org/finra/hiveqlunit/syntax/Check.java b/src/main/java/org/finra/hiveqlunit/syntax/Check.java
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+package org.finra.hiveqlunit.syntax;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
+import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * With a column heder defintion and a sql statement this class can validate the syntax of the sql statement will parse.
+ * It takes approximately 20-30 seconds since it starts an intance of hiverserver through spark context.
+ */
+public class Check {
+
+    HiveContext hc;
+
+
+    public Check() {
+
+        String header;
+        String sql;
+
+        SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("HiveQLUnit").setMaster("local[1]");
+        JavaSparkContext sparkContext = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
+
+
+         hc = new HiveContext(sparkContext) ;
+
+
+        //Blow away hive meta store before execution
+        try {
+            FileUtils.deleteDirectory(new File("/tmp/foo"));
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+
+        hc.setConf("hive.metastore.warehouse.dir","/tmp/foo");
+
+
+    }
+
+    public Check(HiveContext hiveContext) {
+
+        String header;
+        String sql;
+
+        hc = hiveContext;
+
+    }
+
+
+    public static boolean verify(String createTableStatement, String sqlStatement ) {
+
+        Boolean isGood = true;
+
+        Check check = new Check();
+
+        check.hc.runSqlHive(createTableStatement);
+
+        check.hc.runSqlHive(sqlStatement);
+
+        try {
+            check.hc.runSqlHive(sqlStatement);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            isGood = false;
+        }
+
+        return isGood;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/finra/hiveqlunit/syntax/CheckTest.java b/src/test/java/org/finra/hiveqlunit/syntax/CheckTest.java
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+package org.finra.hiveqlunit.syntax;
+
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Ignore;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.finra.hiveqlunit.syntax.Check.verify;
+
+/**
+ * Created by ciuccioj on 5/8/17.
+ */
+public class CheckTest {
+
+    /**
+     * Check Tester.
+     *
+     * @author <Authors name>
+     * @since <pre>May 8, 2017</pre>
+     * @version 1.0
+     */
+
+
+        @Before
+        public void before() throws Exception {
+        }
+
+        @After
+        public void after() throws Exception {
+        }
+
+        /**
+         *
+         * Method: verify(String createTableStatement, String sqlStatement)
+         * dont run becuase no memeory on github build server
+         */
+        @Ignore
+        public void testVerify() throws Exception {
+
+            Boolean isValid = verify("Create table if not exists trial (cola string, colb string) " +
+                            "ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ",
+                    "select * from trial");
+
+            assert isValid;
+
+
+
+        }
+
+        //failure case with bad syntax
+        @Ignore
+    public void testVerify2() throws Exception {
+
+        Boolean isValid = null;
+        try {
+            isValid = verify("Create table if not exists trial (cola string, colb string) " +
+                            "ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ",
+                    "select z from trial");
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            System.out.println("this should Fail");
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            isValid = false;
+        }
+
+        assert !isValid;
+
+
+
+    }
+
+    
+    }
+
+