create table src5 (key string, value string); load data local inpath '../../data/files/kv5.txt' into table src5; load data local inpath '../../data/files/kv5.txt' into table src5; set mapred.reduce.tasks = 4; set hive.optimize.sampling.orderby=true; set hive.optimize.sampling.orderby.percent=0.66f; explain create table total_ordered as select * from src5 order by key, value; create table total_ordered as select * from src5 order by key, value; desc formatted total_ordered; select * from total_ordered; set hive.optimize.sampling.orderby.percent=0.0001f; -- rolling back to single task in case that the number of sample is not enough drop table total_ordered; create table total_ordered as select * from src5 order by key, value; desc formatted total_ordered; select * from total_ordered;