Hadoop/Hive : Loading data from .csv on a local machine

Question

As this is coming from a newbie...

I had Hadoop and Hive set up for me, so I can run Hive queries on my computer accessing data on AWS cluster. Can I run Hive querie

Answer 1

There is another way of enabling this,

1. use hadoop hdfs -copyFromLocal to copy the .csv data file from your local computer to somewhere in HDFS, say '/path/filename'

2. enter Hive console, run the following script to load from the file to make it as a Hive table. Note that '\054' is the ascii code of 'comma' in octal number, representing fields delimiter.

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CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE table name (foo INT, bar STRING)
 COMMENT 'from csv file'
 ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\054'
 STORED AS TEXTFILE
 LOCATION '/path/filename';