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Apache Hive Cookbook

Apache Hive Cookbook

By : Hanish Bansal, Saurabh Chauhan, Shrey Mehrotra
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Apache Hive Cookbook

Apache Hive Cookbook

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By: Hanish Bansal, Saurabh Chauhan, Shrey Mehrotra

Overview of this book

Hive was developed by Facebook and later open sourced in Apache community. Hive provides SQL like interface to run queries on Big Data frameworks. Hive provides SQL like syntax also called as HiveQL that includes all SQL capabilities like analytical functions which are the need of the hour in today’s Big Data world. This book provides you easy installation steps with different types of metastores supported by Hive. This book has simple and easy to learn recipes for configuring Hive clients and services. You would also learn different Hive optimizations including Partitions and Bucketing. The book also covers the source code explanation of latest Hive version. Hive Query Language is being used by other frameworks including spark. Towards the end you will cover integration of Hive with these frameworks.
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Truncating tables


In this recipe, you will learn how to truncate a table in Hive.

Getting ready

The TRUNCATE command removes all rows from the table as well as from the partition, but keeps the table structure as it is. Truncating a table in Hive is indirectly removing the files from the HDFS as a table in Hive is just a way of reading the data from the HDFS in the table or structural format. The general format of using the Truncate table command is as follows:

TRUNCATE TABLE table_name [PARTITION partition_spec];

Where:

partition_spec:

(partition_column = partition_col_value, partition_column = partition_col_value, ...)

How to do it…

Follow these steps to truncate a table in Hive:

The preceding command truncates the table named Sales:

Truncate table Sales;

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