Category: Apache HIVE

We may want to subtract two timestamps in order to find out the difference between occurrence of two events. This is a very common operation which we perform on any TIMESTAMP or DATE or TIME data type. Now the question […]

Hive supports traditional UNIX timestamp data type with nanosecond upto 9 decimal precision (in Teradata it is till 6 decimal precision for timestamp data type). Typical TIMESTAMP data type has DATE part which is YEAR/MONTH/DAY and TIME part which is […]

Once you have access to HIVE , the first thing you would like to do is Create a Database and Create few tables in it. Before we start with the SQL commands, it is good to know how HIVE stores […]

Have you encountered this error while working on HIVE tables with clusters and buckets ? This is one of the most common error we face in HIVE while doing transactions on tables. Since transactions in HIVE is still not as […]