Hi Tim, > I had a similar need and came across > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1304 but haven't got round > to trying it yet.
well that looks exactly like what I'm looking for. The missing link for me was this line: set mapred.reduce.tasks=1; I've used it before but I don't know why I didn't think of it now. I've even mentioned it in my initial mail :( Thanks! I'll go ahead and try it right now. Cheers, Lars
