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 your hive version doesn't support tblproperties ("skip.header.line.count"="1"), you can use below unix command to ignore the first line (column header) and then put it in HDFS.

 sed -n '2,$p' File_with_header.csv > File_with_No_header.csv