Re: HIVE QUERY HELP:: HOW TO IMPLEMENT THIS CASE

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen Sprague
ok. my conscience got the best of me. maybe for worse though. :) This to me is like giving you a rope and a stool and i don't think it'll end well. That said consider something like this: {code} select a.foo1, a.foo2, --column to be updated. you need to position it properly --if null th

Re: HIVE QUERY HELP:: HOW TO IMPLEMENT THIS CASE

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen Sprague
Let's just say this. Coercing hive into doing something its not meant to do is kinda a waste of time. Sure you can rewrite any update as a delete/insert but that's not the point of Hive. Seems like your going down a path here that's not optimal for your situation. You know, I could buy a Tesla a

HIVE QUERY HELP:: HOW TO IMPLEMENT THIS CASE

2014-03-03 Thread yogesh dhari
Hello All, I have a use case in RDBMS query which I have implemented in HIVE as.. *1.1) Update statement* *in RDBMS* update TABLE1 set Age= case when isnull(age,'') ='' then 'A= Current' else '240+ Days' end, Prev_Age=case when isnull(prev_age,'') ='' then 'A= Current' else '240+ Days' end; *