How to skip headers when reading a CSV file in S3 and creating a table in AWS Athena

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I am trying to read csv file from s3 bucket and create a table in AWS Athena. My table when created is unable to skip the header information of my CSV file.

Query Example :

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table_name (   `event_type_id`
     string,   `customer_id` string,   `date` string,   `email` string )
     ROW FORMAT SERDE  'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.OpenCSVSerde' 
     WITH
     SERDEPROPERTIES (   "separatorChar" = "|",   "quoteChar"     = "\"" )
     LOCATION 's3://location/' 
     TBLPROPERTIES ("skip.header.line.count"="1");
This doesn't seem to work. Is there any other way that I could get through this?
Sep 4, 2018 in AWS by datageek
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2 answers to this question.

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This is a known deficiency. The best method I've seen was tweeted by Eric Hammond:

...WHERE date NOT LIKE '#%'

This appears to skip header lines during a Query. I'm not sure how it works, but it might be a method for skipping NULLs.

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answered Sep 4, 2018 by Archana
• 4,170 points
+2 votes
Thanks for the answer.

This should be clear & prominent in the aws doco, but unfortunately is not !
answered Aug 14, 2019 by athenauserz

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