Insert data into hive table

Question

Using a Cygwin distribution, I\'ve installed Hadoop 0.20.3 and Hive 0.11.0.

First of all, I don\'t understand how to use the Hive CLI:

hive> show tabl         


        

Answer 1

You can insert new data into table by two ways.

1. Load the data of a file into table using load command.

   LOAD DATA [LOCAL] INPATH 'filepath' [OVERWRITE] INTO TABLE tablename.
   

2. You can insert new data into table by using select query.

   INSERT INTO table tablename1 select columnlist FROM secondtable;
   

Answer 2

If you already have a table pre_loaded_tbl with some data. You can use a trick to load the data into your table with following query

INSERT INTO TABLE tweet_table 
  SELECT  "my_data" AS my_column 
    FROM   pre_loaded_tbl 
   LIMIT   5;

Also please note that "my_data" is independent of any data in the pre_loaded_tbl. You can select any data and write any column name (here my_data and my_column). Hive does not require it to have same column name. However structure of select statement should be same as that of your tweet_table. You can use limit to determine how many times you can insert into the tweet_table.

However if you haven't' created any table, you will have to load the data using file copy or load data commands in above answers.

Answer 3

Although there is an accepted answer I would want to add that as of Hive 0.14, record level operations are allowed. The correct syntax and query would be:

INSERT INTO TABLE tweet_table VALUES ('data');

Answer 4

If table is without partition then code will be,

Insert into table table_name select col_a,col_b,col_c from another_table(source table)

--here any condition can be applied such as limit, group by, order by etc...

If table is with partitions then code will be,

set hive.exec.dynamic.partition=true;
set hive.exec.dynamic.partition.mode=nonstrict;

insert into table table_name partition(partition_col1, paritition_col2) select col_a,col_b,col_c,partition_col1,partition_col2 from another_table(source table)

--here any condition can be applied such as limit, group by, order by etc...

Answer 5

I faced similar problem so I used impala to insert the single row into my table and it worked for the same query. This will work for sure.

Answer 6

Try to use this with single quotes in data:

insert into table test_hive values ('1','puneet');