Creating a temporary table

In Cloudera Private Cloud Base, you can create a temporary table to improve performance by storing data temporarily for intermediate use, or reuse, by a complex query.

Temporary table data persists only during the current Apache Hive session. Hive drops the table at the end of the session. If you use the name of a permanent table to create the temporary table, the permanent table is inaccessible during the session unless you drop or rename the temporary table. You can create a temporary table having the same name as another user's temporary table because user sessions are independent. Temporary tables do not support partitioned columns and indexes.

Cloudera Private Cloud Base only

Create a temporary table having one string column.
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp1 (tname varchar(64));
Create a temporary table using the CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) statement.
```
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp2 AS SELECT c2, c3, c4 FROM mytable;
```
Create a temporary table using the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE LIKE statement.
```
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp3 LIKE tmp1;
```

Creating a temporary table

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