try select sum(sales) from salestemp where sales is not null;
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Abhishek Gayakwad <a.gayak...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to aggregate one column of decimal type, which is returning me > null. If I cast this column to double it returns me some value. following > are the steps to recreate this scenario. > > ---------------------------- > CREATE TABLE salestemp(sku int, sales decimal); > > LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '000000_0' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE salestemp; > > select sum(sales) from salestemp; // returns null > > select sum(cast(sales AS double)) from salestemp; // returns > 353.9609497977414 > > ---------------------------- > data in '000000_0' looks like > -------------------------------- > 24687329978.000156909543021743116491818900326715 > 246873303113.06617408356827568833561026591436615 > 246873314156.00031381908604348623298363780065343 > 2468733246.8943049855440756796081014881223248771 > 2468733280 > -------------------------------- > > Please let me know what is going wrong here. > > Thanks > Abhishek > -- 丁桂涛
