title: How to truncate a partitioned external table in hive?
body: <p>I'm planning to truncate the hive external table which has one partition. So, I have used the following command to truncate the table :</p>
  
  <pre><code> hive&gt; truncate table abc; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But, it is throwing me an error stating : <strong>Cannot truncate non-managed table abc.</strong></p>
  
  <p>Can anyone please suggest me out regarding the same ...</p>