Hi All, I am looking for some help in using timestamp column and not sure why I am getting this error: Here are how I created the tables and how I am querying it --hdfs dfs -mkdir /hive/tpcds/date_ts
create external table date_ts ( d_date timestamp ) row format delimited fields terminated by '|' location '/hive/tpcds/date_ts'; hive -e "select * from date_ts" Logging initialized using configuration in file:/etc/hive/conf.dist/hive-log4j.properties Hive history file=/tmp/cloudera/hive_job_log_cloudera_201303052251_950655265.txt OK Failed with exception java.io.IOException:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Timestamp format must be yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss[.fffffffff] Time taken: 3.556 seconds [cloudera@localhost tmp-work]$ hdfs dfs -cat /hive/tpcds/date_ts/* 2415022|AAAAAAAAOKJNECAA|1900-01-02 02:00:21.000000000|0|1|1|1900|1|1|2|1|1900|1|1|Monday|1900Q1|N|N|Y|2415021|2415020|2414657|2414930|N|N|N|N|N|