I have data that looks like this:
/user/me/output/
key1/
part_00000
part_00001
key2/
part_00000
part_00001
key3/
part_00000
part_00001
The data is pre-partitioned by "key_", and the "part_*" files contains my data in the form "a,b,key_". I create an external table:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE tester (
a STRING,
b INT
)
PARTITIONED BY (key STRING)
ROW FORMAT
DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION '/user/me/output/';
But a SELECT * gives no output. How can I create an external table that will read in this partitioned data?
You will have to change your directory structure to make sure that hive reads the folders. It should be something like this.
/user/me/output/
key=key1/
part_00000
part_00001
key=key2/
part_00000
part_00001
key=key3/
part_00000
part_00001
Once this is done you can create a table on top of this using the query you mentioned.
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE tester (
a STRING,
b INT
)
PARTITIONED BY (key STRING)
ROW FORMAT
DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION '/user/me/output/';
You will also have to explicitly add the partitions or do a msck repair on the table to load the partitions with hive metadata. Any of these would do:
msck repair table tester;
OR
Alter table tester ADD PARTITION (key = 'key1');
Alter table tester ADD PARTITION (key = 'key2');
Alter table tester ADD PARTITION (key = 'key3');
Once you have done this, queries would return the output as present in your folders.
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I am trying to load a local file with "|" delimited values into hive table, we usually create a table with option "ROW FORMAT DELIMITER "|" . But I want to create a normal table and load data . What is the right syntax I need to use, please suggest.
Working Code
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS testdb.TEST_DATA_TABLE
( column1 string,
column 2 bigint,
)ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|';
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'xxxxx.csv' INTO TABLE testdb.TEST_DATA_TABLE;
But I want to do :
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS testdb.TEST_DATA_TABLE
( column1 string,
column 2 bigint,
);
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'xxxxx.csv' INTO TABLE testdb.TEST_DATA_TABLE FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|';
Reason begin: If i create a table, HDFS will store the data in the table with "|" delimeter
With second DDL you have provided, Hive will create default formatted table like Textformat,orc,parquet..etc(as per your configuration) with cntrl+A delimited file(default delimiter in hive).
If you want to store the hdfs file with pipe delimited then we need to create Hive Table in Text with | delimiter.
(or)
You can also write the result of select query to local (or) HDFS path with pipe delimiter also.
For example if I have a csv file with three cols,
sno,name,salary
1,latha, 2000
2,Bhavish, Chaturvedi, 3000
How to load this type of file in hive. I tried few of the posts from stackoverflow, but it didn't worked.
I have created a external table:
create external table test(
id int,
name string,
salary int
)
fields terminated by '\;'
stored as text file;
and loaded the data into it.
But when done select * from table, I got all null's into it.
I think CSV file has column name then you have to skip header to avoid the error follow the following steps:
Step 1: Create table e.g
CREATE TABLE salary (sno INT, name STRING, salary INT)
row format delimited fields terminated BY ',' stored as textfile
tblproperties("skip.header.line.count"="1");
Step 2: load the CSV file into table e.g
load data local inpath 'file path' into table salary;
Step 3: Test the records
select * from salary;
I have a hive table stored on the cluster. I want to modify it by adding a new column, and have the old columns data with the data of the new column added from another table. Is there a way to do it without recreating the table?
the old schema looks like:
create external table XXX
(item_id bigint,
start_dt string,
end_dt string,
title string,
subtitle string,
description string)
row format delimited fields terminated by '\t' lines terminated by '\n'
stored as textfile
location '/user/me/XXX';
You should be able to do it using below syntax.
ALTER TABLE table_name
[PARTITION partition_spec] -- (Note: Hive 0.14.0 and later)
ADD|REPLACE COLUMNS (col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)
[CASCADE|RESTRICT] -- (Note: Hive 0.15.0 and later)
I have a very basic question which is: How can I add a very simple table to Hive. My table is saved in a text file (.txt) which is saved in HDFS. I have tried to create an external table in Hive which points out this file but when I run an SQL query (select * from table_name) I don't get any output.
Here is an example code:
create external table Data (
dummy INT,
account_number INT,
balance INT,
firstname STRING,
lastname STRING,
age INT,
gender CHAR(1),
address STRING,
employer STRING,
email STRING,
city STRING,
state CHAR(2)
)
LOCATION 'hdfs:///KibTEst/Data.txt';
KibTEst/Data.txt is the path of the text file in HDFS.
The rows in the table are seperated by carriage return, and the columns are seperated by commas.
Thanks for your help!
You just need to create an external table pointing to your file
location in hdfs and with delimiter properties as below:
create external table Data (
dummy INT,
account_number INT,
balance INT,
firstname STRING,
lastname STRING,
age INT,
gender CHAR(1),
address STRING,
employer STRING,
email STRING,
city STRING,
state CHAR(2)
)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
LOCATION 'hdfs:///KibTEst/Data.txt';
You need to run select query(because file is already in HDFS and external table directly fetches data from it when location is specified in create statement). So you test using below select statement:
SELECT * FROM Data;
create external table Data (
dummy INT,
account_number INT,
balance INT,
firstname STRING,
lastname STRING,
age INT,
gender CHAR(1),
address STRING,
employer STRING,
email STRING,
city STRING,
state CHAR(2)
)
row format delimited
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’
stored as textfile
LOCATION 'Your hdfs location for external table';
If data in HDFS then use :
LOAD DATA INPATH 'hdfs_file_or_directory_path' INTO TABLE tablename
The use select * from table_name
create external table Data (
dummy INT,
account_number INT,
balance INT,
firstname STRING,
lastname STRING,
age INT,
gender CHAR(1),
address STRING,
employer STRING,
email STRING,
city STRING,
state CHAR(2)
)
row format delimited
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
stored as textfile
LOCATION '/Data';
Then load file into table
LOAD DATA INPATH '/KibTEst/Data.txt' INTO TABLE Data;
Then
select * from Data;
I hope, below inputs will try to answer the question asked by #mshabeen.
There are different ways that you can use to load data in Hive table that is created as external table.
While creating the Hive external table you can either use the LOCATION option and specify the HDFS, S3 (in case of AWS) or File location, from where you want to load data OR you can use LOAD DATA INPATH option to load data from HDFS, S3 or File after creating the Hive table.
Alternatively you can also use ALTER TABLE command to load data in the Hive partitions.
Below are some details
Using LOCATION - Used while creating the Hive table. In this case data is already loaded and available in Hive table.
**LOAD DATA INPATH** option - This Hive command can be used to load data from specified location. Point to remember here is, the data will get MOVED from input path to Hive warehouse path.
Example -
LOAD DATA INPATH 'hdfs://cluster-ip/path/to/data/location/'
Using ALTER TABLE command - Mostly this is used to add data from other locations into the Hive partitions. In this case it is required that all partitions are already defined and the values for the partitions are already known. In case of dynamic partitions this command is not required.
Example -
ALTER TABLE table_name ADD PARTITION (date_col='2018-02-21') LOCATION 'hdfs/path/to/location/'
The above code will map the partition to the specified data location (in this case HDFS). However, the data will NOT MOVED to Hive internal warehouse location.
Additional details are available here
I am creating table in hive like:
CREATE TABLE SEQUENCE_TABLE(
SEQUENCE_NAME VARCHAR2(225) NOT NULL,
NEXT_VAL NUMBER NOT NULL
);
But, in result there is parse exception. Unable to read Varchar2(225) NOT NULL.
Can anyone guide me that how to create table like given above and any other process to provide path for it.
There's no such thing as VARCHAR, field width or NOT NULL clause in hive.
CREATE TABLE SEQUENCE_TABLE( SEQUENCE_TABLE string, NEXT_VAL bigint);
Please read this for CREATE TABLE syntax:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-CreateTable
Anyway Hive is "SQL Like" but it's not "SQL". I wouldn't use it for things such as sequence table as you don't have support for transactions, locking, keys and everything you are familiar with from Oracle (though I think that in new version there is simple support for transactions, updates, deletes, etc.).
I would consider using normal OLTP database for whatever you are trying to achieve
only you have option here like:
CREATE TABLE SEQUENCE_TABLE(SEQUENCE_NAME String,NEXT_VAL bigint) row format delimited fields terminated by ',' stored as textfile;
PS:Again depends the types to data you are going to load in hive
Use following syntax...
CREATE [TEMPORARY] [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.] table_name
[(col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)]
[COMMENT table_comment]
[ROW FORMAT row_format]
[STORED AS file_format]
And Example of hive create table
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS employee ( eid int, name String,
salary String, destination String)
COMMENT ‘Employee details’
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘\t’
LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’
STORED AS TEXTFILE;