do you mean to say you want to say "select * from table where anycolumn like/equal newyork" ? and then see the column definition/name where it occurs ?
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:43 PM, sudha sadhasivam <sudhasadhasi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Sir > > In our system, we need hive query to retrieve the field name where a > particular data item belongs > For example, if we have a table having location information, when queried for > New York, the query should retuen the field names where New York occurs like > "City", "Administrative division" etc. > > Kindly inform whether it is possible to retrieve meta-data information for a > particular field value in Hive > Thanking you > G Sudha -- Nitin Pawar
