This should work Mine is Hive 2 hive> create table testme (col1 int, col2 int, col3 int, col4 int); OK Time taken: 4.006 seconds
hive> insert into testme values(1,2,3,4); Loading data to table test.testme OK Time taken: 70.844 seconds hive> insert into testme (col1,col2,col3,col4) values(1,2,3,4); Loading data to table test.testme OK --ignoring col2 hive> insert into testme (col1,col3,col4) values(1,3,4); Loading data to table test.testme OK Time taken: 1.505 seconds hive> insert into testme (col1,col3,col4) values(4,5,6); Loading data to table test.testme OK -- insert only col4 hive> insert into testme (col4) values(6); Loading data to table test.testme OK HTH Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn * https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com On 24 May 2016 at 20:57, mahender bigdata <mahender.bigd...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way in Hive to insert specific columns rather than insert > query with all columns options. Like > I have table with 10 columns, in my insert statement, i would like to > insert only 3 columns like below > > insert into tbl1 (col1,col2,col10) values (1,2,3); > > insert into tbl1 (col1,col2,col10) values (4,5,6); > > Above query fails due to syntactic error, I have forcefully need to write > Insert into tbl1 values (1,2,3.....10); I'm running in Hive 1.2 version. > > > >
