What is Partition table in Hive?



What is Partition table in Hive?..

Answer / Mohd Afzal

A partitioned table in Hive is a table divided into smaller, more manageable pieces based on one or more columns (partition keys). This improves query performance by reducing the amount of data scanned.

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