RE: Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix

2015-06-29 Thread Jose M
015 16:41:51 -0700 > Subject: Re: Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix > From: tdsi...@salesforce.com > To: user@phoenix.apache.org > > Jose, > > hbase-site.xml needs to be on the classpath in order for the config to > get picked up. > Regarding the

Re: Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix

2015-06-29 Thread James Taylor
You can avoid the creation of the empty value and avoid data being dropped by using the CREATE VIEW command instead of creating a table. Follow the link that Thomas posted to see some of the trade-offs between a view versus table. The main one is that a view is read-only and don't support secondary

Re: Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix

2015-06-29 Thread Thomas D'Silva
Jose, hbase-site.xml needs to be on the classpath in order for the config to get picked up. Regarding the empty key value see : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/phoenix-hbase-user/UWdBghSfePo/BmCxOUOPHn8J -Thomas On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Jose M wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to Phoenix and

Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix

2015-06-29 Thread Jose M
Hi, I'm new to Phoenix and trying it right now. I had installed it as Parcel in Cloudera 5.4. I'm planning to use it with an already existant Hbase table (other systems use it and I can't recreate it). I see that I can create it without problem with the CREATE TABLE command. But in case I nee