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By default the configuration property hive.metastore.schema.verification is false and metastore to implicitly write the schema version if it's not matching. To enable the strict schema verification, you need to set this property to true in hive-site.xml.

See Hive Metastore Administration for general information about the metastore.

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• Upgrade dry run can be used to list the required scripts for the given upgrade.

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  $ build/dist/bin/schematool -dbType derby -upgradeSchemaFrom 0.7.0 -dryRun Metastore Connection Driver : org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver Metastore connection User: APP Starting upgrade metastore schema from version 0.7.0 to 0.13.0 Upgrade script upgrade-0.7.0-to-0.8.0.derby.sql Upgrade script upgrade-0.8.0-to-0.9.0.derby.sql Upgrade script upgrade-0.9.0-to-0.10.0.derby.sql Upgrade script upgrade-0.10.0-to-0.11.0.derby.sql Upgrade script upgrade-0.11.0-to-0.12.0.derby.sql Upgrade script upgrade-0.12.0-to-0.13.0.derby.sql schemaTool completed

  This is useful if you just want to find out all the required scripts for the schema upgrade.

• Moving a database and tables under it from default Hive catalog to a custom spark catalog

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  build/dist/bin/schematool -moveDatabase db1 -fromCatalog hive -toCatalog spark

  
  

• Moving a table from Hive catalog to Spark Catalog

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  # Create the desired target database in spark catalog if it doesn't already exist. beeline ... -e "create database if not exists newdb"; schematool -moveDatabase newdb -fromCatalog hive -toCatalog spark # Now move the table to target db under the spark catalog. schematool -moveTable table1 -fromCatalog hive -toCatalog spark -fromDatabase db1 -toDatabase newdb