hive> desc database extended wx_test; OK wx_test hdfs://ns1/user/hive/warehouse/wx_test.db hadoop USER {t_date=2015-06-21, creator=wx} Time taken: 0.027 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s) hive> desc formatted page_view; OK # col_name data_type comment viewtime int userid bigint page_url string referrer_url string ip string IP Address of the User # Partition Information # col_name data_type comment dt string country string # Detailed Table Information Database: wx_test Owner: hadoop CreateTime: Sun Jul 12 20:03:18 CST 2015 LastAccessTime: UNKNOWN Protect Mode: None Retention: 0 Location: hdfs://ns1/user/hive/warehouse/wx_test.db/page_view Table Type: MANAGED_TABLE Table Parameters: comment This is the page view table creator wx t_date 2015-06-21 transient_lastDdlTime 1436702598 # Storage Information SerDe Library: org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe InputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileInputFormat OutputFormat: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveSequenceFileOutputFormat Compressed: No Num Buckets: -1 Bucket Columns: [] Sort Columns: [] Storage Desc Params: serialization.format 1 Time taken: 0.089 seconds, Fetched: 39 row(s)