How to load a text file into a Hive table stored as sequence files

Question

I have a hive table stored as a sequencefile.

I need to load a text file into this table. How do I load the data into this table?

Answer 1

The simple way is to create table as textfile and move the file to the appropriate location

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE mytable(col1 string, col2 string)
row format delimited fields terminated by '|' stored as textfile;

Copy the file to the HDFS Location where table is created.
Hope this helps!!!