In my situation, the tables I was importing into hive are daily tables. Couple of columns were added in a month which are not added to the end of the table. Also one field got dropped in between. Also I have data for a year.
Anyway the way, I handled is, created an external table on top of the older data and sqoop imported specifying columns in the query tag of the sqoop import into the hive external table. Had to have three different sqoop imports for the three periods. Anyway got them all together so nobody will notice the change :) --Chalcy From: Chalcy Raja [mailto:chalcy.r...@careerbuilder.com] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 9:08 PM To: user@hive.apache.org; ashwanthku...@googlemail.com Subject: RE: add column to hive table Good idea! Ashwanth. See if this can work for me and let you know. Thanks, CHalcy From: ashwanth.ku...@gmail.com [mailto:ashwanth.ku...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ashwanth Kumar Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 6:55 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: add column to hive table You can only add columns at the end. If you are using the native SerDe try ALTER TABLE tbl_name REPLACE COLUMNS (column1 int, mynewcolumn string, column2 int); More information on Hive Wiki - https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-ddl.html#LanguageManualDDL-Add%252FReplaceColumns On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Chalcy Raja <chalcy.r...@careerbuilder.com<mailto:chalcy.r...@careerbuilder.com>> wrote: Hi all, Adding a column by alter table mytable add column (mynewcolumn string); works well for me. This adds a field to the end of the schema. Is there a way to add a column in between two columns? Thanks, Chalcy -- Ashwanth Kumar / ashwanthkumar.in<http://ashwanthkumar.in/>
