findings?
Tony
-Original Message-
From: Keith Wiley [mailto:kwi...@keithwiley.com]
Sent: 26 March 2013 19:40
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Re: S3/EMR Hive: Load contents of a single file
Are you sure this is doing what you think it's doing? Since Hive associates
tables
/path/to/data/
From: Tony Burton [mailto:tbur...@sportingindex.com]
Sent: 27 March 2013 08:46
To: 'user@hive.apache.org'
Subject: RE: S3/EMR Hive: Load contents of a single file
Thanks for the reply Keith.
you could have dispensed with the additional alter table business and
simply created
Okay, I also saw your previous response which analyzed queries into two tables
built around two files in the same directory. I guess I was simply wrong in my
understanding that a Hive table is fundamentally associated with a directory
instead of a file. Turns out, it be can either one. A
No problem Keith - it was a worthwhile exercise for me to go back and double
check everything was working as expected.
-Original Message-
From: Keith Wiley [mailto:kwi...@keithwiley.com]
Sent: 27 March 2013 17:03
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Re: S3/EMR Hive: Load contents
Hi Tony
Can u create the table without any location.
After that you could do an ALTER TABLE add location and partition
ALTER TABLE myData ADD PARTITION (partitionColumn1='$value1' ,
partitionColumn2='$value2') LOCATION '/path/to/your/directory/in/hdfs';
An example Without Partitions
March 2013 17:22
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Re: S3/EMR Hive: Load contents of a single file
Hi Tony
Can u create the table without any location.
After that you could do an ALTER TABLE add location and partition
ALTER TABLE myData ADD PARTITION (partitionColumn1='$value1
First of all, you cannot point a table to a file. Each table will have a
corresponding table. If you want to have all the in the table contains in
only one file, simply copy that one file into the directory. The table does
not need to know the name of the file. It only matters whether the
[mailto:sanjay.subraman...@wizecommerce.com]
Sent: 26 March 2013 17:22
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Re: S3/EMR Hive: Load contents of a single file
Hi Tony
Can u create the table without any location.
After that you could do an ALTER TABLE add location and partition
ALTER TABLE myData
