Looks like permission issue. Check the permission on the table social. Run the load script as sudo.
Hope this helps! Chalcy -----Original Message----- From: Praveen Bathala [mailto:pbatha...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:01 AM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Error while executing hive queries from script Hi All, I am loading data into Hive from a script and I get following error WARNING: org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.EventCounter is deprecated. Please use org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter in all the log4j.properties files. Hive history file=/tmp/praveen/hive_job_log_praveen_201109100955_48187165.txt FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Line 1:14 Table not found social This is the exact command that runs inside script: /home/myserver/hive/hive-0.7.1/bin/hive -e "LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'social_sample.txt' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE social;" stack trace in hive logs: 2011-09-10 09:55:52,055 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(343)) - FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Line 1:14 Table not found social org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticException: Line 1:14 Table not found social at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.getMetaData(SemanticAnalyzer.java:917) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6594) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:238) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:340) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:736) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:164) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:241) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:425) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticException: Line 1:14 Table not found social at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.getMetaData(SemanticAnalyzer.java:782) ... 12 more When I run same command in hive command line, it goes through fine hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/home/myserver/data-load/social_sample.txt' INTO TABLE social; Copying data from file:/home/myserver/data-load/social_sample.txt Copying file: file:/home/myserver/data-load/social_sample.txt Loading data to table default.social OK Time taken: 3.823 seconds Any help is appreciated. Thanks - Prvn
