In Hive, alter table old_name rename to new_name; create table ( ... )
can solve your problem. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: > > On May 19, 2009, at 11:48 PM, dealmaker wrote: > > >> Hi, >> I want to backup a table and then create a new empty one with following >> commands in Hadoop. How do I do it in java? Thanks. >> > > Since this is a question about Hive, you should be asking on > hive-u...@hadoop.apache.org. > > -- Owen > Min -- My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and bytecode based virtual machine. My profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay My blog: http://coderplay.javaeye.com