Hive loading in partitioned table
Ning Zhang has a great response on the topic at http://grokbase.com/t/hive/user/114frbfg0y/can-i-use-hive-dynamic-partition-while-loading-data-into-tables. The quick context is that: Load data simply copies data, it doesn’t read it so it cannot figure out what to partition Would suggest that you load data into an intermediate table first (or using an external table pointing to all the files) and … Read more