I recommend you to rethink it as part of a bulk transfer potentially even using 
separate partitions. Will be much faster.

> On 21 Jun 2016, at 13:22, raj hive <raj.hiv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi friends,
> 
> INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE commands are working fine in my Hive environment after 
> changing the configuration and all. Now, I have to execute a query like below 
> sql  in hive.
> 
> If exists(select * from tablename where columnname=something)
>   update table set column1=something where columnname=something
>  else
>   insert into tablename values ...
> 
> Can any one help me how to do it in Hive? 
> 
> Thanks
> Raj

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