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How to validate which compression technique has been applied to hive?

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I have create table in hive and specified compression as gzip during table creation

I am not able to find way that gzip has been applied on newly created table

is there any command which specify compression technique applied on hive.

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I am able to resolve it. issue with create and select together.

I've created table first then inserted data, now able to see gzip as tableproperties in desc command

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Thanks for reply..

I've one more question

the table properties showing that gzip has been applied,so i've created table post disabled hive compression.(disabled partition by setting as parquet.compress="none" in create table syntax and set hive.exec.compress.output"="false" )

but when i execute below command on both tables then i dont see any difference for size of withcompression or withoutcompression hive table.

command: $> hadoop fs -du -h hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/apps/hive/warehouse/tt1.

I've set below property in hive while enabling compression $>hive.exec.compress.output","true"