Inserting Data into Hive Table

Question

I am new to hive. I have successfully setup a single node hadoop cluster for development purpose and on top of it, I have installed hive and pig.

I created a dummy table in hive:

create table foo (id int, name string); 

Now, I want to insert data into this table. Can I add data just like sql one record at a time? kindly help me with an analogous command to:

insert into foo (id, name) VALUES (12,"xyz); 

Also, I have a csv file which contains data in the format:

1,name1 2,name2 .. ..  ..   1000,name1000 

How can I load this data into the dummy table?

Answer 1

I think the best way is:
a) Copy data into HDFS (if it is not already there)
b) Create external table over your CSV like this

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE TableName (id int, name string) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED    FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','  LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' STORED AS TEXTFILE LOCATION 'place in HDFS'; 

c) You can start using TableName already by issuing queries to it.
d) if you want to insert data into other Hive table:

insert overwrite table finalTable select * from table name;