title: Dropping partitions in Hive
body: <p>Hi All the table is partitioned on column 1 and column 2 both being INT types,I am using the following command to drop the partition,column1 is equal to null or <strong>HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>ALTER TABLE Table_Name DROP IF EXISTS PARTITION(column1=__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__,column2=101);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but i am getting the following error :missing \' at ',' near ''</p>
  
  <p>when i do:</p>
  
  <p><strong><code>show partitions Table_Name</code></strong> (this is how the partition to be dropped looks)</p>
  
  <p>Output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>column1=__HIVE_DEFAULT_PARTITION__/column2=101
  </code></pre>