https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-CreateTable
AFAIK, you can use date and time as column names. Hive only uses string -Ayon See My Photos on Flickr Also check out my Blog for answers to commonly asked questions. ________________________________ From: Liam Friel <liam.fr...@gmail.com> To: user@hive.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:31 PM Subject: Re: Keyworkds in Hive 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
