Inserting Data into Hive Table

Question

I am new to hive. I have successfully setup a single node hadoop cluster for development purpose and on top of it, I have installed hive and pig.

I created a dummy t

Answer 1

You can use following lines of code to insert values into an already existing table. Here the table is db_name.table_name having two columns, and I am inserting 'All','done' as a row in the table.

insert into table db_name.table_name
select 'ALL','Done';

Hope this was helpful.

Answer 2

Use this -

create table dummy_table_name as select * from source_table_name;

This will create the new table with existing data available on source_table_name.

Answer 3

It's a limitation of hive.

1.You cannot update data after it is inserted

2.There is no "insert into table values ... " statement

3.You can only load data using bulk load

4.There is not "delete from " command

5.You can only do bulk delete

But you still want to insert record from hive console than you can do select from statck. refer this

Answer 4

You may try this, I have developed a tool to generate hive scripts from a csv file. Following are few examples on how files are generated. Tool -- https://sourceforge.net/projects/csvtohive/?source=directory

1. Select a CSV file using Browse and set hadoop root directory ex: /user/bigdataproject/

2. Tool Generates Hadoop script with all csv files and following is a sample of generated Hadoop script to insert csv into Hadoop

   #!/bin/bash -v
   
   hadoop fs -put ./AllstarFull.csv /user/bigdataproject/AllstarFull.csv
   hive -f ./AllstarFull.hive
   
   
   hadoop fs -put ./Appearances.csv /user/bigdataproject/Appearances.csv
   hive -f ./Appearances.hive
   
   
   hadoop fs -put ./AwardsManagers.csv /user/bigdataproject/AwardsManagers.csv
   hive -f ./AwardsManagers.hive

3. Sample of generated Hive scripts

   CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS lahman;
   
   USE lahman;
   
   CREATE TABLE AllstarFull (playerID string,yearID string,gameNum string,gameID string,teamID string,lgID string,GP string,startingPos string) row format delimited fields terminated by ',' stored as textfile;
   
   LOAD DATA INPATH '/user/bigdataproject/AllstarFull.csv' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE AllstarFull;
   
   SELECT * FROM AllstarFull;

Thanks Vijay

Answer 5

to insert ad-hoc value like (12,"xyz), do this:

insert into table foo select * from (select 12,"xyz")a;