Day: May 8, 2015

Today I discovered a bug that Hive can not recognise the existing data for a newly added column to a partitioned external table. In this post, I explained the steps to re-produced as well as the workaround to the issue. Firstly I prepared the data in text format call test.txt, …

This article explains how table locking works in Hive by running a series hive commands and their outputs. To do this, I have created two simple tables in my small cluster called “test” and “test_partitioned”. Initially, when no query is running against the “test” table, the table should have no …