I forget where you find the keyword list (a quick google did not find it for me) but you can use any name you like as a column name provided you escape it in the CREATE TABLE statement with backticks ``
Might make you life easier not to use reserved names, mind you ... On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Aggarwal, Vaibhav <vagg...@amazon.com>wrote: > Hi**** > > Is there a wiki page which contains a list of keywords in Hive?**** > > Can we use ‘time’ or ‘date’ as column names?**** > > Thanks**** > > Vaibhav**** >