drop table tstsrcpart; create table tstsrcpart like srcpart; insert overwrite table tstsrcpart partition (ds='2008-04-08', hr='11') select key, value from srcpart where ds='2008-04-08' and hr='11'; LOCK TABLE tstsrcpart PARTITION(ds='2008-04-08', hr='11') EXCLUSIVE; SHOW LOCKS tstsrcpart PARTITION(ds='2008-04-08', hr='12');