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create table in Athena using CSV file

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Today, I will discuss about “How to create table using csv file in Athena”.Please follow the below steps for the same.* Upload or transfer the csv file to required S3 location. * Create table using below syntax. create external table emp_details (EMPID int, EMPNAME string ) ROW FORMAT SERDE ‘org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe’ WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ( ‘serialization.format’ = ‘,’, ‘field.delim‘ = ‘,’ ) location ‘s3://techie-1/emp/’ TBLPROPERTIES ( “skip.header.line.count”=”1”) * Important to note here that if you have a file which has header , then you need to skip the header .For this, we…