Not that it could be related but if possible setup a Mysql or similar serious datastore….that Hive can connect to…
Its possibly not prudent spending time to analyze problems caused by derby metastore and with Mysql u can start doing some heavy duty stinging with Hive :-) Regards sanjay From: Aishwarya Ganesan <ash8as...@gmail.com<mailto:ash8as...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 7:24 AM To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: Describe extended shows number of rows as 0 Hi, When I run analyze table command and run describe extended command, it shows the number of rows as 0. Query: DESCRIBE EXTENDED lineitem1; Result: .......parameters:{numPartitions=0, numFiles=4, transient_lastDdlTime=1367502213, numRows=0, totalSize=3184, rawDataSize=0}, My Settings: <property> <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name> <value>jdbc:derby:;databaseName=/home/TempStatsStore;create=true</value> <description>JDBC connect string for a JDBC metastore</description> </property> How to resolve this? Thanks, Aishwarya CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.