ASAIK any database does that! 1> set nocount on 2> select @@version 3> select 1 + 1 4> go
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adaptive Server Enterprise/15.7/EBF 21708 SMP SP110 /P/x86_64/Enterprise Linux/ase157sp11x/3546/64-bit/FBO/Fri Nov 8 05:39:38 2013 ----------- 2 Dr Mich Talebzadeh LinkedIn * https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAEAAAAWh2gBxianrbJd6zP6AcPCCdOABUrV8Pw>* http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com On 9 March 2016 at 09:50, Dmitry Tolpeko <dmtolp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I noticed that Hive allows you to execute SELECT without FROM clause > (tested in Hive 0.14, Hive 1.2.1): > > SELECT 1+1; > > In which version was it added (is there a Jira)? I see that it is not > mentioned in docs > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Select > > So the question whether it is official and will not be removed in future. > > Thanks, > > Dmitry >