Adding a comma separated table to Hive

Question

I have a very basic question which is: How can I add a very simple table to Hive. My table is saved in a text file (.txt) which is saved in HDFS. I have tried to create an exter

Answer 1

    create external table Data (
        dummy INT,
        account_number INT, 
        balance INT, 
        firstname STRING, 
        lastname STRING, 
        age INT, 
        gender CHAR(1), 
        address STRING, 
        employer STRING, 
        email STRING,
        city STRING, 
        state CHAR(2)
    )
    row format delimited    
    FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘,’
    stored as textfile
    LOCATION 'Your hdfs location for external table';

If data in HDFS then use :

LOAD DATA INPATH 'hdfs_file_or_directory_path' INTO TABLE tablename

The use select * from table_name