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layout: global
-title: LOAD
-displayTitle: LOAD
+title: LOAD DATA
+displayTitle: LOAD DATA
license: |
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
@@ -19,4 +19,101 @@ license: |
limitations under the License.
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-**This page is under construction**
+### Description
+`LOAD DATA` statement loads the data into a table from the user specified directory or file. If a directory is specified then all the files from the directory are loaded. If a file is specified then only the single file is loaded. Additionally the `LOAD DATA` statement takes an optional partition specification. When a partition is specified, the data files (when input source is a directory) or the single file (when input source is a file) are loaded into the partition of the target table.
+
+### Syntax
+{% highlight sql %}
+LOAD DATA [ LOCAL ] INPATH path [ OVERWRITE ] INTO TABLE table_name
+ [ PARTITION ( partition_col_name = partition_col_val [ , ... ] ) ]
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+### Parameters
+
+ path
+ - Path of the file system. It can be either an absolute or a relative path.
+
+
+
+ table_name
+ - The name of an existing table.
+
+
+
+ PARTITION ( partition_col_name = partition_col_val [ , ... ] )
+ - Specifies one or more partition column and value pairs.
+
+
+
+ LOCAL
+ - If specified, it causes the
INPATH to be resolved against the local file system, instead of the default file system, which is typically a distributed storage.
+
+
+
+ OVERWRITE
+ - By default, new data is appended to the table. If
OVERWRITE is used, the table is instead overwritten with new data.
+
+
+### Examples
+{% highlight sql %}
+ -- Example without partition specification.
+ -- Assuming the students table has already been created and populated.
+ SELECT * FROM students;
+
+ + -------------- + ------------------------------ + -------------- +
+ | name | address | student_id |
+ + -------------- + ------------------------------ + -------------- +
+ | Amy Smith | 123 Park Ave, San Jose | 111111 |
+ + -------------- + ------------------------------ + -------------- +
+
+ CREATE TABLE test_load (name VARCHAR(64), address VARCHAR(64), student_id INT);
+
+ -- Assuming the students table is in '/user/hive/warehouse/'
+ LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/user/hive/warehouse/students' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE test_load;
+
+ SELECT * FROM test_load;
+
+ + -------------- + ------------------------------ + -------------- +
+ | name | address | student_id |
+ + -------------- + ------------------------------ + -------------- +
+ | Amy Smith | 123 Park Ave, San Jose | 111111 |
+ + -------------- + ------------------------------ + -------------- +
+
+ -- Example with partition specification.
+ CREATE TABLE test_partition (c1 INT, c2 INT, c3 INT) USING HIVE PARTITIONED BY (c2, c3);
+
+ INSERT INTO test_partition PARTITION (c2 = 2, c3 = 3) VALUES (1);
+
+ INSERT INTO test_partition PARTITION (c2 = 5, c3 = 6) VALUES (4);
+
+ INSERT INTO test_partition PARTITION (c2 = 8, c3 = 9) VALUES (7);
+
+ SELECT * FROM test_partition;
+
+ + ------- + ------- + ----- +
+ | c1 | c2 | c3 |
+ + ------- + --------------- +
+ | 1 | 2 | 3 |
+ + ------- + ------- + ----- +
+ | 4 | 5 | 6 |
+ + ------- + ------- + ----- +
+ | 7 | 8 | 9 |
+ + ------- + ------- + ----- +
+
+ CREATE TABLE test_load_partition (c1 INT, c2 INT, c3 INT) USING HIVE PARTITIONED BY (c2, c3);
+
+ -- Assuming the test_partition table is in '/user/hive/warehouse/'
+ LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/user/hive/warehouse/test_partition/c2=2/c3=3'
+ OVERWRITE INTO TABLE test_load_partition PARTITION (c2=2, c3=3);
+
+ SELECT * FROM test_load_partition;
+
+ + ------- + ------- + ----- +
+ | c1 | c2 | c3 |
+ + ------- + --------------- +
+ | 1 | 2 | 3 |
+ + ------- + ------- + ----- +
+
+
+{% endhighlight %}
+