Have you tried the following command ? REFRESH TABLE <table> Cheers
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Ashok Kumar <ashok34...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Spark. > > I am trying to use spark-sql with SPARK CREATED and HIVE CREATED tables. > > I have successfully made Hive metastore to be used by Spark. > > In spark-sql I can see the DDL for Hive tables. However, when I do select > count(1) from HIVE_TABLE it always returns zero rows. > > If I create a table in spark as create table SPARK_TABLE as select * from > HIVE_TABLE, the table schema is created but no data. > > I can then use Hive to do INSET SELECT from HIVE_TABLE into SPARK_TABLE. > That works. > > I can then use spark-sql to query the table. > > My questions: > > > 1. Is this correct that spark-sql only sees data in spark created > tables but not any data in Hive tables? > 2. How can I make Spark read data from existing Hive tables. > > > > Thanks >
