Hi Ramasubramanian,

By default,  the rowkey is supposed to be the first column. However, you
can write a custom mapper and use it with bulk loader to user other columns
as Rowkey.
Have a look at this link for some more info:
http://hbase.apache.org/book/ops_mgt.html#importtsv

HTH,
Anil Gupta

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Ramasubramanian <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> Should rowkey be always the first column of the upload file?  If not can
> someone pls let me know how to define it?
>
> Regards,
> Rams




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Thanks & Regards,
Anil Gupta

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