partition column in hive

Question

I have to partition the table in hive with a column which is also part of the table.

For eg:

Table: employee

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Answer 1

Here's how to create a hive table with a partition on the column you specified

CREATE TABLE employee (employeeId INT, employeeName STRING) PARTITIONED BY (employeeSalary INT);

The partition column is specified in the PARTITIONED BY section.
In the Hive shell you can run describe employee; and it will show all the columns in the table. With your CREATE TABLE you should see 4 columns, not the 3 you are trying to get.

For your load command, you will want to specify all the partitions to write into. (I'm not very familiar with these, mostly basing off of http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/LanguageManual/DML#Syntax

So something like

LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH './examples/files/kv2.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE employee PARTITION (employeeSalary=2000, employeeSalary=4000);