Thanks Tim, Sorry for not explaining the problem clearly...
I have data in this format , I wanted to store the data in Ext-Hive table without the Double Quote "127.0.0.17"~"444c1c9a-8820-11e1-aaa8-00219b8a879e"~"2012-04-17T00:00:01Z"~"476825ea-8820-11e1-a105-0200ac1d1c3d "127.0.0.12"~"544c1c9a-8820-11e1-aaa8-00219b8a879e"~"2012-04-17T00:00:01Z"~"476825ea-8820-11e1-a105-0200ac1d1c3d "127.0.0.13"~"644c1c9a-8820-11e1-aaa8-00219b8a879e"~"2012-04-17T00:00:01Z"~"476825ea-8820-11e1-a105-0200ac1d1c3d ________________________________ From: Tim Robertson <timrobertson...@gmail.com> To: user@hive.apache.org; Gopi Kodumur <gkodu...@yahoo.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 12:14 PM Subject: Re: Can we define external table Fields enclosed in " I believe so. From the tutorial [1] : CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE page_view_stg(viewTime INT, userid BIGINT, page_url STRING, referrer_url STRING, ip STRING COMMENT 'IP Address of the User', country STRING COMMENT 'country of origination') COMMENT 'This is the staging page view table' ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '44' LINES TERMINATED BY '12' HTH, Tim [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Tutorial On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Gopi Kodumur <gkodu...@yahoo.com> wrote: Is it possible to specify enclosed by character " for fields , while defining external table > >Thanks >Gopi > >