from Alex's blog http://mapredit.blogspot.in/2013/05/get-all-extended-hive-tables-with.html
if you want to do it programatically then you will need to look at HiveMetaStoreClient If both of these are not what you are looking for then sorry I will need a little more details on your question On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Peter Marron < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi,**** > > ** ** > > Hopefully a simple question.**** > > Given that I have a table name (as a String) is there an API call that I > can**** > > use to obtain the location of the table? Assume that my code is executing* > *** > > in a custom InputFormat to define the context. (I’m running “inside” a > Hive**** > > query so I assume that there’s a way which doesn’t involve calling an > external**** > > HCatalog server or anything like that.)**** > > ** ** > > Z**** > -- Nitin Pawar
