How do I find managed tables in Hive?

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Managed tables A managed table is stored under the hive.metastore.warehouse.dir path property, by default in a folder path similar to /user/hive/warehouse/databasename. 2 нояб. 2018 г.

What are managed tables in Hive?

Managed tables are Hive owned tables where the entire lifecycle of the tables' data are managed and controlled by Hive. External tables are tables where Hive has loose coupling with the data. All the write operations to the Managed tables are performed using Hive SQL commands.

What is the default location for Managed tables in a Hive?

Hive is one of the most popular data warehouse systems in the industry for data storage, and to store this data Hive uses tables. Tables in the hive are analogous to tables in a relational database management system. Each table belongs to a directory in HDFS. By default, it is /user/hive/warehouse directory.

How do I find tables in Hive?

Issue the SHOW TABLES command to see the views or tables that exist within workspace. Switch to the Hive schema and issue the SHOW TABLES command to see the Hive tables that exist.

Where are external tables stored in Hive?

External tables are stored outside the warehouse directory. They can access data stored in sources such as remote HDFS locations or Azure Storage Volumes. Whenever we drop the external table, then only the metadata associated with the table will get deleted, the table data remains untouched by Hive.

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