diff --git a/asterix/asterix-app/src/test/resources/spatial/local/spatial-drop.aql b/asterix/asterix-app/src/test/resources/spatial/local/spatial-drop.aql
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+use dataverse demo1112;
+
+declare type MyRecord as open {
+  id: int32,
+  point: point,
+  kwds: string
+}
+
+declare nodegroup group1 on nc1, nc2;
+
+set format "edu.uci.ics.asterix.runtime.formats.nontagged.NonTaggedDataFormat";
+
+declare dataset MyData(MyRecord)
+  partitioned by key id on group1;
+
+drop dataset MyData;
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diff --git a/asterix/asterix-app/src/test/resources/spatial/local/spatial-load.aql b/asterix/asterix-app/src/test/resources/spatial/local/spatial-load.aql
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+use dataverse demo1112;
+
+declare type MyRecord as open {
+  id: int32,
+  point: point,
+  kwds: string
+}
+
+declare nodegroup group1 on nc1, nc2;
+
+set format "edu.uci.ics.asterix.runtime.formats.nontagged.NonTaggedDataFormat";
+
+declare dataset MyData(MyRecord)
+  partitioned by key id on group1;
+
+load dataset MyData 
+using "edu.uci.ics.asterix.external.dataset.adapter.NCFileSystemAdapter"
+(("path"="nc1:///tmp/data.json"),("format"="adm")) pre-sorted;