Re: Question on varchar in 0.12.0 version of nive

[Gayathri Swaroop]

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> I am a newbie to hive. I am trying to query an oracle table in hive. The
> data is in hadoop and i have created similar varchar columns in my external
> table. Would like to know what are the limitations of varchar over string.
> And why people prefer string over varchar.
>
> Thanks,
> Gayathri
>