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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:09 PM, afancy <grou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Does anybody know how to generate a unique ID in Hive? I have a table: > hive> describe results; > OK > id int > test string > Time taken: 0.091 seconds > > When I insert data into the table results, i want to generate a unqiue Id, > which is like a sequence in RDBMS. > Regards, > afancy -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang