--- layout: global title: CREATE HIVEFORMAT TABLE displayTitle: CREATE HIVEFORMAT TABLE license: | Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --- ### Description The `CREATE TABLE` statement defines a new table using Hive format. ### Syntax {% highlight sql %} CREATE [ EXTERNAL ] TABLE [ IF NOT EXISTS ] table_identifier [ ( col_name1[:] col_type1 [ COMMENT col_comment1 ], ... ) ] [ COMMENT table_comment ] [ PARTITIONED BY ( col_name2[:] col_type2 [ COMMENT col_comment2 ], ... ) | ( col_name1, col_name2, ... ) ] [ ROW FORMAT row_format ] [ STORED AS file_format ] [ LOCATION path ] [ TBLPROPERTIES ( key1=val1, key2=val2, ... ) ] [ AS select_statement ] {% endhighlight %} ### Parameters
table_identifier
[ database_name. ] table_name
EXTERNAL
PARTITIONED BY
ROW FORMAT
STORED AS
LOCATION
COMMENT
TBLPROPERTIES
AS select_statement