Hi Yogesh. It should be a simple delimited file with ^A character as the field delimiter.
Regards Bejoy KS Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: yogesh dhari <yogeshdh...@live.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:18:35 To: hive request<user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Need Help in Hive storage format Hi all, If we run this query insert overwrite local directory '/home/yogesh/Downloads/demoyy' select * from NYSE_LOCAL; { ( describe NYSE_LOCAL ; exchange string symbol string ddate string open float high float low float ) } ls /home/yogesh/Downloads/demoyy/ it shows the file name 000000_0 my Question is: 1) In which format does file 000000_0 is? 2) what is the delimiter between columns? Please help Thanks & Regards Yogesh Kumar