title: Single file output from Hive
body: <p>I have a hive table that used a SerDe to store files on Azure Blob.</p>
  
  <pre><code>field 1 int,
  field 2 string, 
  field 3 struct
  ROW FORMAT SERDE 
    'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe' 
  STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 
    'org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat' 
  OUTPUTFORMAT 
    'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I insert 5000 records into the table, the output consists of 5000 blobs on Azure Storage, is there a way to store the output as a single blob or even reduce the number of blobs with more records in each?</p>