Re: Hive Query Questions - is null in WHERE

2013-10-17 Thread Raj Hadoop
  Thanks. It worked for me now when i use it as an empty string. From: Krishnan K To: "user@hive.apache.org" ; Raj Hadoop Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:11 AM Subject: Re: Hive Query Questions - is null in WHERE For string columns, nu

Re: Hive Query Questions - is null in WHERE

2013-10-17 Thread Krishnan K
For string columns, null will be interpreted as an empty string and for others, it will be interpreted as null... On Wednesday, October 16, 2013, Raj Hadoop wrote: > All, > > When a query is executed like the below > > select field1 from table1 where field1 is null; > > I am getting the resul

Hive Query Questions - is null in WHERE

2013-10-16 Thread Raj Hadoop
All,   When a query is executed like the below   select field1 from table1 where field1 is null;   I am getting the results which have empty values or nulls in field1. How does is null work in Hive queries.   Thanks, Raj