¿qué es la tabla externa de la colmena

cómo crear una tabla externa de la colmena

create external table if not exists [external-table-name] (
[column1-name] [column1-type], [column2-name] [column2-type], …)
comment '[comment]'
row format [format-type]
fields terminated by '[termination-character]'
stored as [storage-type]
location '[location]';