Thanks pxiongBut I came across the below syntax in stack overflow. Any idea what it actually does?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:05:23 -0700 Subject: Re: Query doubt From: pxi...@apache.org To: user@hive.apache.org Hi Rakesh, If you would like to get all the names starting with r, you can use select * from emp where name like 'r%'; or select * from emp where name rlike '^r'; or select * from emp where name regexp '^r'; Thanks.Pengcheng On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:40 AM, rakesh sharma <rakeshsharm...@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi All I am trying to get all the names starting with r.My query looks like select * from emp where name like 'r~%'; But it doesn't result anything; Any help thanksrakesh