How to create smaller table from big table in HIVE

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I currently have a Hive table that has 1.5 billion rows. I would like to create a smaller table (using the same table schema) with about 1 million rows from the original table. Ideally, the new rows would be randomly sampled from the original table, but getting the top 1M or bottom 1M of the original table would be ok, too. How would I do this?

Sep 24, 2018 in Big Data Hadoop by slayer
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You could probably best use Hive's built-in sampling methods.

INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE my_table_sample 
SELECT * FROM my_table 
TABLESAMPLE (1m ROWS) t;

This syntax was introduced in Hive 0.11. If you are running an older version of Hive, you'll be confined to using the PERCENT syntax like so.

INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE my_table_sample 
SELECT * FROM my_table 
TABLESAMPLE (1 PERCENT) t;
answered Sep 24, 2018 by digger
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