SEMI is only for exist.
Maybe you can try this
Select a.* FROM tblA a left outer JOIN tblB b ON a.field1 = b.field1 where
a.field2 is null or b.fild2 is null
Best regards
Ransom.
-Original Message-
From: Philip Tromans [mailto:philip.j.trom...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 9:02 PM
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Re: Does Hive supports EXISTS keyword in select query?
Hi,
Hive supports EXISTS via SEMI JOIN. Have a look at:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+Joins
Cheers,
Phil.
On 11 April 2012 13:59, Bhavesh Shah wrote:
> Hello all,
> I want to query like below in Hive:
> Select a.* FROM tblA a JOIN tblB b ON a.field1 = b.field1
> where (a.field2 is null or not exists(select field2 from tblB where filed2
> is not null)
>
> But I think Hive doesn't supports EXISTS keyword so how can I overcome this
> issue?
> Pls suggest me some solution to this. I just got this kind of situation
> where I need to implement some thing like EXISTS/NOT EXISTS
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks and Regards,
> Bhavesh Shah
>