Tag: managed tables in hive

Today, I will present types of tables that can be created in hive in a different way. I created three tables in hive.create table empdtls (emp_id int ); { This is called Internal or Managed table} create external table empdtls_ext (emp_id int ); { This is External table } create external table empdtls_ext_v2 ( emp_id int ) location ‘/user/demo/hivetesting/’ { This is also called External table} Now, we will check the TABLE_TYPE of all above tables using command DESCRIBE FORMATTED table_name Internal Or Managed Table/user/hive/warehouse/ is the location where all…