Dynamic Partitions
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Documentation
This is the design document for dynamic partitions in Hive. Usage information is also available:
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Terminology
- Static Partition (SP) columns: in DML/DDL involving multiple partitioning columns, the columns whose values are known at COMPILE TIME (given by user).
- Dynamic Partition (DP) columns: columns whose values are only known at EXECUTION TIME.
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