Re: Date Functions in Hive

2015-06-23 Thread Devopam Mittra
Please go through UDFs in detail : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+UDF I presume that your column is STRING datatype. You may want to do the following: SELECT CAST (to_date(from_unixtime(unix_timestamp(, "MMM dd, "))) AS DATE) FROM ; Once you have your DATE d

Date Functions in Hive

2015-06-23 Thread saurabh
Hi, Need some suggestions on Date function in Hive. The data appearing in the source file is in the format of "May 31, 2015". I want to convert the same in MM-DD- format. Please suggest if this can be done with existing Hive 14.0 functionality or it will require custom UDF. Please let me kno