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Jim Kellerman wrote:
> What are you using for the row key?
>   
The row key is set by the primary key of the "original table" defined in 
relational model.
Sometimes, multiple relational tables are required to be joined into one 
"bigtable"
In this case, I use the primary key of relational table "Order" as the 
row key.
> ---
> Jim Kellerman, Senior Engineer; Powerset
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Zhou Wei [mailto:zhouwei04@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:02 AM
>> To: hbase-user@hadoop.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: obtain the maximum value of the row id of a table
>>
>> Bryan Duxbury wrote:
>>     
>>> No, we can't scan in reverse. I don't think it's possible to do so
>>> with the components we have today - there's no previous method on
>>> mapfile, only next. Out of curiosity, hat's the use case
>>>