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Apache Hive Interview Questions

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Explain ALTER Table statement in Hive?

545

LOWER or LCASE function in Hive with example?

549

What is the functionality of Query Processor in Apached Hive ?

547

Explain Data Type Conversion in Hive?

556

Explain SHOW and DESCRIBE Commands in Hive?

568

What are the views in Hive?

509

What are the different Primitive Data Types available in Hive?

547

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?

616

When to choose "Internal Table" in Hive?

555

What are the different parts of Hive ?

572

What are the types of tables in Hive?

542

Does Hive support record level Insert, delete or update?

519

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

570

Double type in Hive - Important points?

525

TRIM function in Hive with example?

560

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Un-Answered Questions { Apache Hive }

What are the three different modes in which hive can be run?

544

What is the default location where hive stores table data?

525

Mention what is ObjectInspector functionality in Hive?

597

Explain Usage of Hive?

532

What is a partition in Hive?

702

What are the Binary Storage formats supported in Hive?

538

What is bucketing ?

517

How to change a column data type in Hive?

540

What is the purpose of Hive Driver?

887

Is the keyword 'DEFINE' like a function name?

697

What is bag?

528

What will be the output of cast ('XYZ' as INT)?

521

Is it possible to use same metastore by multiple users, in case of embedded hive?

515

What is the purpose of exploding in hive?

516

What is apache hcatalog?

549

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