How to truncate a partitioned external table in hive?
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I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :
hive> truncate table abc;
But, it is throwing me an error stating : Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.
Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...
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I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :
hive> truncate table abc;
But, it is throwing me an error stating : Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.
Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...
hive
edited Nov 12 at 9:03
Nishu Tayal
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asked Nov 12 at 6:52
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up vote
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I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :
hive> truncate table abc;
But, it is throwing me an error stating : Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.
Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...
hive
edited Nov 12 at 9:03
Nishu Tayal
11.4k73481
asked Nov 12 at 6:52
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I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :
hive> truncate table abc;
But, it is throwing me an error stating : Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.
Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...
hive
hive
edited Nov 12 at 9:03
Nishu Tayal
11.4k73481
asked Nov 12 at 6:52
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287
edited Nov 12 at 9:03
Nishu Tayal
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asked Nov 12 at 6:52
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287
edited Nov 12 at 9:03
Nishu Tayal
11.4k73481
edited Nov 12 at 9:03
Nishu Tayal
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edited Nov 12 at 9:03
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Make your table MANAGED first:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');
Then truncate:
truncate table abc;
And finally you can make it external again:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
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Make your table MANAGED first:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');
Then truncate:
truncate table abc;
And finally you can make it external again:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
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Make your table MANAGED first:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');
Then truncate:
truncate table abc;
And finally you can make it external again:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
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Make your table MANAGED first:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');
Then truncate:
truncate table abc;
And finally you can make it external again:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
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Make your table MANAGED first:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='FALSE');
Then truncate:
truncate table abc;
And finally you can make it external again:
ALTER TABLE abc SET TBLPROPERTIES('EXTERNAL'='TRUE');
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