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Apache Hive Cookbook

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Apache Hive Cookbook

Overview of this book

Hive was developed by Facebook and later open sourced in Apache community. Hive provides SQL like interface to run queries on Big Data frameworks. Hive provides SQL like syntax also called as HiveQL that includes all SQL capabilities like analytical functions which are the need of the hour in today’s Big Data world. This book provides you easy installation steps with different types of metastores supported by Hive. This book has simple and easy to learn recipes for configuring Hive clients and services. You would also learn different Hive optimizations including Partitions and Bucketing. The book also covers the source code explanation of latest Hive version. Hive Query Language is being used by other frameworks including spark. Towards the end you will cover integration of Hive with these frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Apache Hive Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Altering table properties


In this recipe, you will learn how to alter table properties in Hive.

Getting ready

The ALTER TABLE properties command alters the table properties. The general format of using the ALTER TABLE command is as follows:

ALTER TABLE table_name SET TBLPROPERTIES table_properties;

How to do it…

Follow these steps to alter a table in Hive. The following statement changes the old comment to a new one:

Alter Table Hive_Test_table SET TBLPROPERTIES ('comment' = 'This is a new comment');