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Apache Hive Interview Questions

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Explain ALTER Table statement in Hive?

707

LOWER or LCASE function in Hive with example?

705

What is the functionality of Query Processor in Apached Hive ?

708

Explain Data Type Conversion in Hive?

717

Explain SHOW and DESCRIBE Commands in Hive?

746

What are the views in Hive?

665

What are the different Primitive Data Types available in Hive?

694

Are there any problems which can only be solved by MapReduce and cannot be solved by PIG? In which kind of scenarios MR jobs will be more useful than PIG?

775

When to choose "Internal Table" in Hive?

720

What are the different parts of Hive ?

764

What are the types of tables in Hive?

734

Does Hive support record level Insert, delete or update?

683

Explain what is a Hive variable. What do we use it for?

722

Double type in Hive - Important points?

678

TRIM function in Hive with example?

722

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Un-Answered Questions { Apache Hive }

How data transfer happens from HDFS to Hive?

825

Clarify how hive de-serialize and serialize the information?

643

What is the major difference between local and remote meta-store?

902

Is it possible to change the default location of Managed Tables in Hive, if so how?

719

How do we write our own custom serde?

706

How to create table in hive for a json input file?

824

What is the utilization of hcatalog?

686

Mention Hive default read and write classes?

753

How do you specify the table creator name when creating a table in hive?

692

How can hive avoid mapreduce?

694

What are the different Complex Data Types available in Hive?

904

How to Rename a table in Hive

752

what does /*streamtable(table_name)*/ do?

777

Hive new version supported Hadoop Versions ?

604

Difference between order by and sort by in Hive?

726

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