I creates a single column, single row table called 'dual'
1. Create a text file on HDFS, call it a.txt with just the letter 'a' (or any single character in it) 2. Create the single column table, dual: 'create table dual (x, string);' 3. Load the text file into dual: load data local inpath '... /a.txt' overwrite into table dual; (replace '...' with the path to the HDFS directory you created a.txt in) 4. Enjoy using it just like you do in Oracle: select parse_url('http://autos.aol.com/gallery/best-trucks-fuel-economy/', 'HOST') from dual A quick AOL search and I see this guy did pretty much the same: http://bigdatadw.blogspot.com/2012/02/dual-table-in-hive.html --- Mark E. Sunderlin Solutions Architect |AOL Core Data Technologies P: 703-265-6935 |C: 540-327-6222 | AIM: MESunderlin 22000 AOL Way | Dulles, VA | 20166 -----Original Message----- From: Kaufman Ng [mailto:kauf...@cloudera.com] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:45 AM To: user@hive.apache.org Cc: fellowtree Subject: Re: why i get Table not found 'dual' The 'dual' table is a feature in Oracle only I believe. There's an open Jira for this. You can try Edward Capriolo's project (described in the jira) which allows you to use dual. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1558 On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:29 AM, MiaoMiao <liy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you even have a table name 'dual' or not? > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:24 PM, fellowtree <fellowt...@163.com> wrote: >> hi all: >> some one said hive support sql like select if(1=2,100,200) from >> dual; however i always get Table not found 'dual' . my hive is 0.9.0 >> and what is the reason? >> >> ________________________________ >> fellowtree