There can't be a space in the variable name. Try this: ${hiveconf:start_date}
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Techy Teck <comptechge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone help me out on this?
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> I am stuck on this and I have no clue what wrong I am doing?
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> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Techy Teck <comptechge...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have my below query in test1.hql file. I am trying to pass the date (dt)
>> as the command line argument.
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>> select * from lip_data_quality where dt = '${hiveconf: start_date}';
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>> So whenever I try to run the above test1.hql file like this-
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>> hive -f hivetest1.hql -hiveconf start_date=20120709
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>> I get zero records back. But the data is there in that table for that
>> date. Why is it so? Something wrong I am doing?
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>> Can anyone help me out here? I was following Bejoy's Article here
>> http://kickstarthadoop.blogspot.com/2011/10/include-values-during-execution-time-in.html
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