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How to Drop Partitions on a Big Data Service with Oracle Distribution for Hadoop Cluster with an External Dcat Metastore (Doc ID 2916019.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Big Data Service on OCI - Version N/A and later
x86_64

Goal

How to drop partitions on a Big Data Service (BDS) with Oracle Distribution for Hadoop (ODH) cluster with an external dcat metastore.

The steps provided here are required because "drop partition" does not work on BDS with ODH clusters, versions 3.0.8 to 3.0.19, which contain an external dcat metastore.  

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