can we use same column name for 2 different column families?

2013-03-10 Thread Ramasubramanian Narayanan
Hi, Is it fine to use same column name for 2 different column families? For example, In a table emp, can we have column name dob under column family F1 F2? Please let me know the impact of having like this if any... Note : I don't want to use dob1 or some other field name for the second

Re: can we use same column name for 2 different column families?

2013-03-10 Thread shashwat shriparv
Ya sure you can have that... as you always specify columnfamily to read out of hbase, i dont think there should be a problem in that. ∞ Shashwat Shriparv On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Ramasubramanian Narayanan ramasubramanian.naraya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it fine to use same

RE: can we use same column name for 2 different column families?

2013-03-10 Thread Anoop Sam John
can we have column name dob under column family F1 F2? Just fine.. Go ahead.. :) -Anoop- From: Ramasubramanian Narayanan [ramasubramanian.naraya...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:41 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: can we use same column

Re: can we use same column name for 2 different column families?

2013-03-10 Thread ramkrishna vasudevan
.. :) -Anoop- From: Ramasubramanian Narayanan [ramasubramanian.naraya...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:41 PM To: user@hbase.apache.org Subject: can we use same column name for 2 different column families? Hi, Is it fine to use same column name