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Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-1187: --------------------------------------- Do you want to team up on: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1161 ? > Implement ddldump utility for Hive Metastore > -------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1187 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1187 > Project: Hadoop Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Metastore > Affects Versions: 0.6.0 > Reporter: Carl Steinbach > Assignee: Carl Steinbach > > Implement a ddldump utility for the Hive metastore that will generate the QL > DDL necessary to recreate the state of the current metastore on another > metastore instance. > A major use case for this utility is migrating a metastore from one database > to another database, e.g. from an embedded Derby instanced to a MySQL > instance. > The ddldump utility should support the following features: > * Ability to generate DDL for specific tables or all tables. > * Ability to specify a table name prefix for the generated DDL, which will be > useful for resolving table name conflicts. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.