hive -e "CREATE DATABASE my_stats LOCATION 'hdfs://XXXX:9000
*/user/hive/warehouse/*mystats.db'"

This command should be like as follows:
hive -e 'Create Database my_stats'

you do not need to specify the location because the default location of
database is the warehouse directory.


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Amjad ALSHABANI <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I think it is worth  to mention that I tried doing this before on locally
> deployed HDFS and it went well.
>
> So my question now, what has gone wrong with creation database with given
> location??
>
>
> thanx for your rplies
>
> Amjad
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Siddharth Tiwari <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry Amzad, I am afraid u can't
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On May 30, 2014, at 3:12 AM, "Amjad ALSHABANI" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Everybody,
>>
>> I know that this question may concern Hadoop list but i ve made this
>> mistake when using Hive.
>>  I created new database giving the location on HDFS but i found that it
>> removed all other data that exist already.
>>
>> =====
>> before creation, the directory on HDFS contains :
>> pns@app11:~$ hadoop fs -ls /user/hive/warehouse
>> Found 25 items
>> drwxr-xr-x   - user1 supergroup          0 2013-11-20 13:40
>> */user/hive/warehouse/*dfy_ans_autres
>> drwxr-xr-x   - user1 supergroup          0 2013-11-20 13:40
>> /user/hive/warehouse/dfy_ans_maillog
>> drwxr-xr-x   - user1 supergroup          0 2013-11-20 14:28
>> /user/hive/warehouse/dfy_cnx
>> drwxr-xr-x   - user2           supergroup          0 2014-05-30 06:05
>> /user/hive/warehouse/pns.db
>> drwxr-xr-x   - user2          supergroup          0 2014-02-24 17:00
>> /user/hive/warehouse/pns_fr_integ
>> drwxr-xr-x   - user2          supergroup          0 2014-05-06 15:33
>> /user/hive/warehouse/pns_logstat.db
>>
>>
>> hive -e "CREATE DATABASE my_stats LOCATION 'hdfs://XXXX:9000
>> */user/hive/warehouse/*mystats.db'"
>>
>> but now I couldn't see the other directories on HDFS:
>>
>> pns@app11:~/aalshabani$ hls /user/hive/warehouse
>> Found 1 items
>> drwxr-xr-x   - user2 supergroup          0 2014-05-30 11:37
>> */user/hive/warehouse*/mystats.db
>>
>>
>> Is there anyway I could restore the other data??
>>
>>
>> Best regards.
>>
>> Amjad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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