Rita, I guess you are looking for something similar to RBDMS (say, oracle) is providing.
If that is the case, Exporting table structure alone doesnt make much sense in HBase case as HBase table can contain unstructured data. I mean, number of column qualifiers (Equivalent with Oracle columns) is not fixed. Otherwise, as Stack mentioned, you can use describe command output to recreate a table (manually). -- Regards, Laxman > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Stack > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 8:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: export schema only > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Rita <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is it possible to export table schema only versus exporting the > entire > > table? I need this so I can create a separate table for QA purposes. > > > > In shell, if you do 'describe TABLENAME', the output can be used > create the table IIRC. > > Let us know if it doesn't work. > > St.Ack
