Hive External table-CSV File- Header row

Question

Below is the hive table i have created:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE Activity (
  column1 type, 

  column2 type
)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED          


        

Answer 1

If you are using Hive version 0.13.0 or higher you can specify "skip.header.line.count"="1" in your table properties to remove the header.

For detailed information on the patch see: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5795