Neil, Thanks a lot, that works like a charm. Perhaps, that should go into the Hive Wiki page too sometime. Regards, Karthik.
________________________________ From: Neil Xu <neil.x...@gmail.com> To: user@hive.apache.org Sent: Mon, October 11, 2010 6:42:10 PM Subject: Re: IN clause usage in "where" you can try find_in_set(string str, string strList) , ex. select col1 from table1 where find_in_set(col1, 'abc,xyz')<>0; if col1 has NULL values, it can be modified as select col1 from table1 where find_in_set( coalesce(col1,'') , 'abc,xyz')<>0; the details about find_in_set are at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-688 Neil 2010/10/12 Karthik <karthik_...@yahoo.com> Is there a way I can use the "in" list of values in a query condition like >"select col1 from table1 where col1 in ('abc','xyz')"? > >I use Hive 0.6. > >Regards, >Karthik. > >
