U shud create partitions by date and add partitions by alter table cmnd daily
U can then query data by date partition
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On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Sam William wrote:
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> I have a case where I want to dump data daily under
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> /user/sampd/test/{date}.
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> I thought
I have a case where I want to dump data daily under
/user/sampd/test/{date}.
I thought of making this an external table on Hive so that I can just keep
dumping data daily.
In my external table definition , I specified the location as
/user/sampd/test.
But when I try to run a qu