RE: Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix

: Re: Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix From: tdsi...@salesforce.com To: user@phoenix.apache.org Jose, hbase-site.xml needs to be on the classpath in order for the config to get picked up. Regarding the empty key value see : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg

Re: Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix

Jose, hbase-site.xml needs to be on the classpath in order for the config to get picked up. Regarding the empty key value see : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/phoenix-hbase-user/UWdBghSfePo/BmCxOUOPHn8J -Thomas On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Jose M soloning...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi,

Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix

Hi, I'm new to Phoenix and trying it right now. I had installed it as Parcel in Cloudera 5.4. I'm planning to use it with an already existant Hbase table (other systems use it and I can't recreate it). I see that I can create it without problem with the CREATE TABLE command. But in case I

Re: Avoid deleting Hbase table when droping table with Phoenix

You can avoid the creation of the empty value and avoid data being dropped by using the CREATE VIEW command instead of creating a table. Follow the link that Thomas posted to see some of the trade-offs between a view versus table. The main one is that a view is read-only and don't support