What are you trying to do? Do you want hex keys or decimal keys? Usually you'll want keys fixed-length and zero-padded if you don't want to be surprised by how they sort.
St.Ack On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Mohamed Ghareb <m.ghar...@tedata.net>wrote: > Kindly when I create new tables with presplitting region, > I need to use the firstrow & lastrow argument, my question if my key is > number "integer" can I put start & end row with decimal number or I need to > convert it to hexadecimal number > hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.RegionSplitter tablename HexStringSplit > --firstrow 9990 --lastrow 3000000 -c 5 >
