Have you simply tried INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE destination SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM source WHERE col4 = 'abc'
Thanks! On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Sha Liu <lius...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Hive Gurus, > > When using the Hive extension of multiple inserts, can we add Where > clauses for each Select statement, like the following? > > FROM ... > INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE ... > SELECT col1, col2, col3 > *WHERE col4='abc'* > INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE ... > SELECT col1, col4, col2 > *WHERE col3='xyz'* > * > * > The underlined parts didn't cause any errors, but they didn't seem to be > effective either (I'm using Hive 0.9). Note that the columns used in the > Where clauses are not among the selected ones, but I'm not sure if that is > important. Is this kind of operations supported? > > Thanks, > Sha Liu >
