在HIVE中创建与其他表具有相同列的表？

Question

I want to create table from some metadata of another table in hive. I'm using hive.

I know from this question that the metatdata can be retrieved from the table by INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS in sql:

Does HIVE have a similar access to metadata of a table to allow me to create a table using the columns of another table? Essentially, I'm copying a table without all of the tuples.

This is the best thing I have so far:

create table <table_name>( (select <table_name> from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS)) row format delimited fields by '|';

Answer 1

You can use LIKE so the new table gets the structure but not the data.

Hive documentation

CREATE TABLE yourtable
LIKE table2;

Answer 2

You can try CTAS syntax:

CREATE TABLE new_table_name
AS
SELECT *
FROM old_table_name
WHERE 1 = 2;

Answer 3

I believe this will do the trick:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS schema.New_Table;    
CREATE TABLE New_Table    
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\034' LINES TERMINATED BY '\012'
STORED AS TEXTFILE location '/IC/New_Table'   
AS   
select *   
from Old_Table;