no, sooner or later it will run out of auto-incremental primary key because there are new records added constantly. Datetime column will force me to use Delete command which maybe slow as well.
He Yongqiang wrote: > > I think the simplest one would be finding some key( incremental primary > key > or datetime column etc) to partition you data. > > > On 09-5-20 下午11:48, "dealmaker" <vin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Other parts of the non-hadoop system will continue to add records to >> mysql db >> when I move those records (and remove the very same records from mysql >> db >> at the same time) to hadoop for processing. That's why I am doing those >> mysql commands. >> >> What are you suggesting? If I do it like you suggest, dump all records >> from >> mysql db to a file in hdfs, how do I remove those very same records from >> the >> mysql db at the same time? Just rename it first and then dump them and >> then >> read them from the hdfs file? >> >> or should I do it my way? which way is faster? >> Thanks. >> >> >> Edward J. Yoon-2 wrote: >>> >>> Hadoop is a distributed filesystem. If you wanted to backup your table >>> data to hdfs, you can use SELECT * INTO OUTFILE 'file_name' FROM >>> tbl_name; Then, put it to hadoop dfs. >>> >>> Edward >>> >>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:08 AM, dealmaker <vin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> No, actually I am using mysql. So it doesn't belong to Hive, I think. >>>> >>>> >>>> owen.omalley 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> View this message in context: >>>> http://www.nabble.com/How-to-Rename---Create-DB-Table-in-Hadoop--tp23629956p >>>> 23637131.html >>>> Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best Regards, Edward J. Yoon @ NHN, corp. >>> edwardy...@apache.org >>> http://blog.udanax.org >>> >>> > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-Rename---Create-Mysql-DB-Table-in-Hadoop--tp23629956p23639232.html Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.