Thanks Bejoy. Yes, they have the same schema. Can you explain further how to? I am new to hive.
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Bejoy KS <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Hi > > If all the 3 tables have the same. Schema, Create an external table and > move the data from all the 3 tables to this new table's location. Just a > hdfs copy or move is not that expensive. > Regards > Bejoy KS > > Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. > ------------------------------ > *From: * zuohua zhang <[email protected]> > *Date: *Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:02:42 -0700 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: * [email protected] > *Subject: *most efficient way to concatenate 3 tables into one? > > I have 3 tables, each contains monthly data, I would like to make a table > to concatenate all 3 months into 1 table. > What is the most efficient way to do that? > I am using insert into which takes a long time. > > Thanks! >
