Hey bejoy thats the problem i am not able to run the group by query in
hive i dunno whether i m making a mistake or some thing
see my previoius reply to this same thread i put up the same issue ...


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Bejoy KS <bejoy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Soham
>
> Rewrite your query with the columns in Group By included in Select as well. 
> Something like
>
> select country,name from users_info  group by country;
>
> Regards
> Bejoy KS
>
> Sent from handheld, please excuse typos.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soham Sardar <sohamsardart...@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:57:23
> To: <user@hive.apache.org>; Bejoy Ks<bejoy...@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org
> Subject: Re: date datatype in hive
>
> And btw does group by works in hive because the same wuery i am
> running in mysql and its working fine but its failing in hive
>
> select name from users_info  group by country;
>
> in mysql its working but whn i try to run it in hive its telling
>
> hive> select name from users_info  group by country;
> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Line 1:7 Expression not in GROUP
> BY key 'name'
>
> I wanna know why is it failing
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Soham Sardar
> <sohamsardart...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> See Bejoy and Everyone ,
>> I have two tables
>> one users_info and one users_audit
>> in hive ..
>>
>> hive> desc users_audit;
>> OK
>> id      int
>> userid  int
>> logtime string
>>
>> hive> desc users_info;
>> OK
>> id      int
>> name    string
>> age     int
>> country string
>> gender  string
>> bday    string
>>
>> now i have given the description of the tables in hive
>>
>> my goal is to find:
>> the maximum number of users loging - in at between a certain time
>> frame say 1PM to 2PM- belonging to a specific country
>>
>> for example
>> in between 1PM to 2PM there are 10000 users loging into and 5500 are
>> from africa , then i need to print the names of all the users who are
>> logged in between the time stamp and who are from africa ..
>> the logtime in the users_audit table gives the login time and the
>> names and country are from the users_info table .
>>
>> Can someone help me out with this . I am a new user in hive so would
>> like some ones help !!!!!!
>> Thanks in advance!!  :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Bejoy Ks <bejoy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Soham
>>>
>>> Hive Supports pretty much all the primitive data types including INT. For a 
>>> detaild list please refer
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Tutorial#Tutorial-PrimitiveTypes
>>>
>>> The only draw back as in common is when you have the data type as String 
>>> you cannot use it directly on Mathematical functions.
>>>
>>> Your requirement can easily be satisfied with a few date functions on 
>>> String data itself.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Bejoy KS
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Soham Sardar <sohamsardart...@gmail.com>
>>> To: user@hive.apache.org; user <u...@sqoop.apache.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:23 PM
>>> Subject: date datatype in hive
>>>
>>> I have a native data type in mysql and i just imported it into hive
>>> and the data type of the column has now become string ..
>>> Now i would like to know if there is any native data type in hive and
>>> What are the pros and cons of using string type in hive rather than
>>> (int)(thats what i expect ) type
>>>
>>> And with the string type can i just run any type of queries like
>>> print the names of the person which has the maximum number of users
>>> between 1 PM and 3 PM
>>>
>>> and the table should have just name int(5) and login time (datetime )
>>> {as per the mysql syntax}

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