public void runMR(String myMultiLocs, String sortKey)
      throws ParseException, IOException, Exception, org.apache.hadoop.zebra.parser.ParseException {

    JobConf jobConf = new JobConf(conf);
    jobConf.setJobName("TestMultipleOutputs4");
    jobConf.setJarByClass(TestMultipleOutputs4.class);
    jobConf.set("table.output.tfile.compression", "gz");
    jobConf.set("sortKey", sortKey);
    // input settings
    jobConf.setInputFormat(TextInputFormat.class);
    jobConf.setMapperClass(TestMultipleOutputs4.MapClass.class);
    jobConf.setMapOutputKeyClass(BytesWritable.class);
    jobConf.setMapOutputValueClass(ZebraTuple.class);
    FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(jobConf, inputPath);

    jobConf.setNumMapTasks(1);

    // output settings

    jobConf.setOutputFormat(BasicTableOutputFormat.class);
    BasicTableOutputFormat.setMultipleOutputs(
        jobConf, myMultiLocs, TestMultipleOutputs4.OutputPartitionerClass.class);

    // set the logical schema with 2 columns
    BasicTableOutputFormat.setSchema(jobConf, "word:string, count:int");
    // for demo purposes, create 2 physical column groups
    BasicTableOutputFormat.setStorageHint(jobConf, "[word];[count]");
    BasicTableOutputFormat.setSortInfo(jobConf, sortKey);
    System.out.println("in runMR, sortkey: " + sortKey);
    // set map-only job.
    jobConf.setNumReduceTasks(1);
    JobClient.runJob(jobConf);
    BasicTableOutputFormat.close(jobConf);
  }