View Hive Partition Files: Easy Guide

1 year ago
Isabella Edwards
1 minute

In Hive, you can use the following command to view the partition files of a table:

  1. Use the DESCRIBE EXTENDED command to view detailed information about a table, including partition information.
DESCRIBE EXTENDED table_name;
  1. Use the command SHOW PARTITIONS to view all partition information of a table.
SHOW PARTITIONS table_name;
  1. To view the partition files of a table using HDFS commands, first locate the storage path of the table and then use HDFS commands to view the partition files.
hdfs dfs -ls /path/to/table_name

You can view the partition file information of the table using the above method.

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