I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need to
convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am trying
to figure out how to do this in hive:

Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION BY
A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA

Any help would be appreciated.

I am now trying to do it this way but doesn't work in hive. I think I am
missing something here, can someone please help?

select a_id from web_data t1 where a_id = (select min(a_id) from web_data
t2 where t2.t_timestamp = t1.t_timestamp)

I get:
FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:69 cannot recognize input near 'select' 'min'
'(' in expression specification
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need to
> convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am trying
> to figure out how to do this in hive:
>
> Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION BY
> A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

Hive is not SQL 92 compliant or whatever.

https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual.html

in particular you can not do subselects inside the in or the where
clause. Hive usually have other formulations like left semi join that
makes things 'like in' and 'not in' possible.

Edward
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am now trying to do it this way but doesn't work in hive. I think I am
> missing something here, can someone please help?
>
> select a_id from web_data t1 where a_id = (select min(a_id) from web_data t2
> where t2.t_timestamp = t1.t_timestamp)
>
> I get:
>
>
> FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:69 cannot recognize input near 'select' 'min'
> '(' in expression specification
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need to
>> convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am trying
>> to figure out how to do this in hive:
>>
>> Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION BY
>> A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Edward Capriolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hive is not SQL 92 compliant or whatever.
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual.html
>
> in particular you can not do subselects inside the in or the where
> clause. Hive usually have other formulations like left semi join that
> makes things 'like in' and 'not in' possible.
>
> Thanks. But what I am looking for is to select only those rows that are of
min(t_timestamp) for a given a_id. What would be the best way? I guess do
some kind of group by and store it in intermediate file and run another
select on it?
> Edward
>  On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I am now trying to do it this way but doesn't work in hive. I think I am
> > missing something here, can someone please help?
> >
> > select a_id from web_data t1 where a_id = (select min(a_id) from
> web_data t2
> > where t2.t_timestamp = t1.t_timestamp)
> >
> > I get:
> >
> >
> > FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:69 cannot recognize input near 'select' 'min'
> > '(' in expression specification
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need to
> >> convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am
> trying
> >> to figure out how to do this in hive:
> >>
> >> Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION BY
> >> A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
>

"I guess do some kind of group by and store it in intermediate file and run
another select on it?"

Yes, that is my recommendation.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Edward Capriolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> Hive is not SQL 92 compliant or whatever.
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual.html
>>
>> in particular you can not do subselects inside the in or the where
>> clause. Hive usually have other formulations like left semi join that
>> makes things 'like in' and 'not in' possible.
>>
>>  Thanks. But what I am looking for is to select only those rows that are
> of min(t_timestamp) for a given a_id. What would be the best way? I guess
> do some kind of group by and store it in intermediate file and run another
> select on it?
>
>
>> Edward
>>  On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > I am now trying to do it this way but doesn't work in hive. I think I am
>> > missing something here, can someone please help?
>> >
>> > select a_id from web_data t1 where a_id = (select min(a_id) from
>> web_data t2
>> > where t2.t_timestamp = t1.t_timestamp)
>> >
>> > I get:
>> >
>> >
>> > FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:69 cannot recognize input near 'select'
>> 'min'
>> > '(' in expression specification
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need to
>> >> convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am
>> trying
>> >> to figure out how to do this in hive:
>> >>
>> >> Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION BY
>> >> A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA
>> >>
>> >> Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>

Try this:

SELECT a.a_id, b.path
FROM ( SELECT a_id, MIN(t_timestamp) t_timestamp
       FROM   web_data
       GROUP BY a_id
     ) a JOIN
       web_data b ON ( b.a_id = a.a_id AND b.t_timestamp = a.t_timestamp )

-Nicole

From: Roberto Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:06:29 -0700
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Subject: Re: SQL help

"I guess do some kind of group by and store it in intermediate file and run another select on it?"

Yes, that is my recommendation.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Edward Capriolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hive is not SQL 92 compliant or whatever.

https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual.html

in particular you can not do subselects inside the in or the where
clause. Hive usually have other formulations like left semi join that
makes things 'like in' and 'not in' possible.

Thanks. But what I am looking for is to select only those rows that are of min(t_timestamp) for a given a_id. What would be the best way? I guess do some kind of group by and store it in intermediate file and run another select on it?

Edward
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> I am now trying to do it this way but doesn't work in hive. I think I am
> missing something here, can someone please help?
>
> select a_id from web_data t1 where a_id = (select min(a_id) from web_data t2
> where t2.t_timestamp = t1.t_timestamp)
>
> I get:
>
>
> FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:69 cannot recognize input near 'select' 'min'
> '(' in expression specification
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need to
>> convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am trying
>> to figure out how to do this in hive:
>>
>> Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION BY
>> A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Gesli, Nicole
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

>  Try this:
>
>  SELECT a.a_id, b.path
> FROM ( SELECT a_id, MIN(t_timestamp) t_timestamp
>        FROM   web_data
>        GROUP BY a_id
>      ) a JOIN
>        web_data b ON ( b.a_id = a.a_id AND b.t_timestamp = a.t_timestamp )
>

Awesome that works. I didn't realize I could do it this way. Thanks for
your help and others as well.

>
> -Nicole
>
> From: Roberto Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:06:29 -0700
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: SQL help
>
> "I guess do some kind of group by and store it in intermediate file and
> run another select on it?"
>
> Yes, that is my recommendation.
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Edward Capriolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hive is not SQL 92 compliant or whatever.
>>>
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual.html
>>>
>>> in particular you can not do subselects inside the in or the where
>>> clause. Hive usually have other formulations like left semi join that
>>> makes things 'like in' and 'not in' possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks. But what I am looking for is to select only those rows that are
>> of min(t_timestamp) for a given a_id. What would be the best way? I guess
>> do some kind of group by and store it in intermediate file and run another
>> select on it?
>>
>>
>>> Edward
>>>  On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I am now trying to do it this way but doesn't work in hive. I think I
>>> am
>>> > missing something here, can someone please help?
>>> >
>>> > select a_id from web_data t1 where a_id = (select min(a_id) from
>>> web_data t2
>>> > where t2.t_timestamp = t1.t_timestamp)
>>> >
>>> > I get:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:69 cannot recognize input near 'select'
>>> 'min'
>>> > '(' in expression specification
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need
>>> to
>>> >> convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am
>>> trying
>>> >> to figure out how to do this in hive:
>>> >>
>>> >> Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION
>>> BY
>>> >> A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA
>>> >>
>>> >> Any help would be appreciated.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>

You can try using where a_id in (subquery). But I don't think hive supports
subqueries in where clauses. You would have to turn this into a join
statement.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I am now trying to do it this way but doesn't work in hive. I think I am
> missing something here, can someone please help?
>
> select a_id from web_data t1 where a_id = (select min(a_id) from web_data
> t2 where t2.t_timestamp = t1.t_timestamp)
>
> I get:
>
>
> FAILED: Parse Error: line 1:69 cannot recognize input near 'select' 'min'
> '(' in expression specification
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need to
>> convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am trying
>> to figure out how to do this in hive:
>>
>> Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION BY
>> A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>
>
>

Hi Mohit,

Hive does not support window functions afaik.

The following link might be useful if you can bring that in...

https://github.com/hbutani/SQLWindowing/wiki

Not sure if this is being brought into trunk at some point...

Ashish

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> I am new to Hive. I have several SQL from RDBMS database that I need to
> convert to hive. What's the best reference for HIVEQL? For now I am trying
> to figure out how to do this in hive:
>
> Select  distinct A_ID, First_Value(path IGNORE NULLS) over(PARTITION BY
> A_ID ORDER BY t_timestamp) From WEB_DATA
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>