Hi, You are partitioning by Month and bucketing by date or day?
If that is the case you only have 30-31 hash partitioning (bucketing) for each Month? HTH Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn * https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com *Disclaimer:* Use it at your own risk. Any and all responsibility for any loss, damage or destruction of data or any other property which may arise from relying on this email's technical content is explicitly disclaimed. The author will in no case be liable for any monetary damages arising from such loss, damage or destruction. On 19 August 2016 at 21:46, Rahul Channe <drah...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > Is there a way to create the bucket with specific file name in hive. I see > hive creates random names for the file starting with 0000 > > I want the file name to be in yyyymmdd format since I am partitioning by > month and bucketing by date > > Thank you > > Rahul >