Cause - This dummy column is added by Phoenix- if someone created Phoenix table on top of existing HBase table. Solutions- Following solutions can be used to delete _0 column from each row - Execute Unix command like below - echo "scan 'ns:tbl1', {COLUMNS => 'cf:_0'}" |hbase shell | grep "column=cf:_0" | cut -d' ' -f 2 | awk '{$1=$1};1'|sed -e 's/^/delete '"'"'ns:tbl1'"'"', '"'"'/' -e 's/$/'"'"', '"'"'cf:_0'"'"'/' | hbase shell Above command will scan rows which has these columns and prepare delete statements and execute them to remove _0 column. But, above will not give a good performance in case of bigger tables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Solution can b...