i think we need an example. if the column exists in the meta-data but not in the data i'm pretty sure hive will take it as a null. no example though makes it hard to go further into this (at least for this reader.)
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Gary Zhao <garyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I'm query a table and I'm able to filter column value is "NULL", but looks > like some record doesn't even have "NULL" value. Is there a way to filter > them out? > > Thanks > Gary >