How to handle fields enclosed within quotes(CSV) in importing data from S3 into DynamoDB using EMR/Hive

Question

I am trying to use EMR/Hive to import data from S3 into DynamoDB. My CSV file has fields which are enclosed within double quotes and separated by comma. While creating exter

Answer 1

Use the csv-serde-0.9.1.jar file in your hive query, see http://illyayalovyy.github.io/csv-serde/

add jar /path/to/jar_file

Create external table emrS3_import_1(col1 string, col2 string, col3 string, col4 string) row format serde 'com.bizo.hive.serde.csv.CSVSerde'
with serdeproperties
(
  "separatorChar" = "\;",
  "quoteChar" = "\"
) stored as textfile
tblproperties("skip.header.line.count"="1") ---to skip if have any header file
LOCATION 's3://emrTest/folder';