It won’t help him since ‘*’ represent all columns including the partition columns which he wants to exclude.
Dudu From: Marcin Tustin [mailto:mtus...@handybook.com] Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2016 3:17 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Crate Non-partitioned table from partitioned table using CREATE TABLE .. LIKE Will CREATE TABLE sales5 AS SELECT * FROM SALES; not work for you? On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Nagabhushanam Bheemisetty <nbheemise...@gmail.com<mailto:nbheemise...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi I've a scenario where I need to create a table from partitioned table but my destination table should not be partitioned. I won't be knowing the schema so I cannot create manually the destination table. By the way both tables are external tables. Want to work at Handy? Check out our culture deck and open roles<http://www.handy.com/careers> Latest news<http://www.handy.com/press> at Handy Handy just raised $50m<http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/02/on-demand-home-service-handy-raises-50m-in-round-led-by-fidelity/> led by Fidelity [http://marketing-email-assets.handybook.com/smalllogo.png]