Re: hive storing a byte array

2011-05-24 Thread Luke Forehand
ne them in >Hive as string. > > >-Original Message- >From: Luke Forehand [mailto:luke.foreh...@networkedinsights.com] >Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:21 PM >To: user@hive.apache.org >Subject: hive storing a byte array > >Hello, > >Can someone please provide an ex

hive storing a byte array

2011-05-23 Thread Luke Forehand
Hello, Can someone please provide an example in Hive, how I can store a serialized object in a field? A field type of byte array or binary or blob is really what I was looking for, but if something slightly less trivial is involved some instruction would be much appreciated. This object is used

LOAD DATA INPATH + TABLESAMPLE

2011-03-29 Thread Luke Forehand
. Doing a "compaction" of the table using INSERT OVERWRITE to re-write the partitions fixes the table sampling problem, but we would like to avoid the expensive write. Are there better ways to accomplish our goal of putting data online quickly, and preserve the ability to table s