Hi Bhavesh INSERT INTO is supported in hive 0.8 . An upgrade would get you things rolling. LOAD DATA inefficient? What was the performance overhead you were facing here?
Regards Bejoy K S From handheld, Please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: Bhavesh Shah <bhavesh25s...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:33:29 To: <u...@hive.apache.org>; <dev@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: u...@hive.apache.org Subject: Doubt in INSERT query in Hive? Hello, Whenever we want to insert into table we use: INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE TBL_NAME (SELECT ....) Due to this, table gets overwrites everytime. I don't want to overwrite table, I want append it everytime. I thought about LOAD TABLE , but writing the file may take more time and I don't think so that it will efficient. Does Hive Support INSERT INTO TABLE TAB_NAME? (I am using hive-0.7.1) Is there any patch for it? (But I don't know How to apply patch ?) Pls suggest me as soon as possible. Thanks. -- Regards, Bhavesh Shah