hive has no built-in rank function. you'd need to use a user-defined
function (UDF) to simulate it. there are a few custom implementations
on the net that you can leverage.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Raihan Jamal <jamalrai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's wrong with the below query.
>
>
> SELECT buyer_id, item_id, created_time
> FROM (
>     SELECT buyer_id, item_id, rank(buyer_id) as rank, created_time
>     FROM testingtable1
>     DISTRIBUTE BY buyer_id, item_id
>     SORT BY buyer_id, item_id, created_time desc
> ) a
> WHERE rank < 10
> ORDER BY buyer_id, rank
>
>
> I am always getting as -
>
> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: line 3:30 Invalid Function rank
>
>
> I am using Hive 0.6 I guess.
>
>
>
> Raihan Jamal
>

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