Sean, You can refer to http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/LanguageManual/DDL#Create.2BAC8-Drop_Table
You can define the ROW FORMAT DELIMITED as part of the table definition and then load your data into the table. Thanks and Regards, Sonal <https://github.com/sonalgoyal/hiho>Connect Hadoop with databases, Salesforce, FTP servers and others <https://github.com/sonalgoyal/hiho> Nube Technologies <http://www.nubetech.co> <http://in.linkedin.com/in/sonalgoyal> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Sean Curtis <sean.cur...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks Bryan > > should have been more specific. checked that guide and it didnt seem > obvious with LOAD INFILE how to take a file that was already pipe-delimited > and straight import that. > > is there a section of the doc i may have missed or some tip that can help > there? > > sean > > On Dec 14, 2010, at 11:36 PM, Bryan Talbot wrote: > > I'll help by recommending that you get started by looking at the "Getting > Started Guide". > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/GettingStarted > > > -Bryan > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Sean Curtis <sean.cur...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> just wondering if i have a pipe delimited file, how i can just import this >> data into hive: >> >> basically i am using the microlens database, which is pipe separated. for >> example: >> >> user id | age | gender | occupation | zip code >> >> translates to >> >> 123 | 24 | M | worker | 12345 >> >> >> i'd like to just import this straight into Hive. my initial thoughts: >> 1. use unix substitute command and change all "|" to "Ctrl-A". >> 2. import into mysql, then use sqoop >> >> seems it should be easier than this. can someone help? >> >> thanks for the help. >> >> sean > > > >
