John,

What is R?

-----Original Message-----
From: ext John Meagher [mailto:john.meag...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 4:34 PM
To: user@hive.apache.org
Subject: Re: Converting rows into dynamic colums in Hive

I don't think having dynamic columns is possible in Hive.  I've always output 
from Hive a structure like your query output and used R to convert it into a 
dynamic column structure.


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:56 PM,  <richin.j...@nokia.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ashish, that gives an idea.
>
> But I am not sure about the outer select loop, I have to know all the 
> values in Beta column beforehand to do a max on each value.
>
> Is there a better way?
>
>
>
> Richin
>
>
>
> From: ext Ashish Thusoo [mailto:athu...@qubole.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 5:05 PM
> To: user@hive.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Converting rows into dynamic colums in Hive
>
>
>
> you should be able to do this in hive using a group by on alpha and 
> then using a combination of the max and if statement... something on 
> the following lines
>
> select alpha, max(abc), max(pqr), ...
> (
>   select alpha, if (beta == 'abc', Gamma, NULL) as abc, if (beta == 
> 'pqr', Gamma, NUL) as pqr, ....
>   from table
> )
> group by alpha
>
> something on those lines...
>
> Ashish
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:57 PM, <richin.j...@nokia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> One of my Query output looks like-
>
>
>
> Alpha                    Beta                       Gamma
>
> 123                         xyz                         1.0
>
> 123                         abc                         0.5
>
> 123                         pqr                         1.3
>
> 123                         def                         2.1
>
> 456                         xyz                         0.1
>
> 456                         abc                         0.6
>
> 456                         pqr                         1.9
>
> 456                         def                         3.2
>
> 456                         lmn                        1.1
>
> 456                         sdf                          1.2
>
>
>
> I want the output for the data visualization purpose to look like 
> (basically taking rows from one table and making it column in another 
> table)
>
>
>
> Alpha                    xyz         abc         pqr         def         lmn
> sdf
>
> 123                         1.0          0.5          1.3          2.1
>
> 456                         0.1          0.6          1.9          3.2
> 1.1          1.2
>
>
>
> Question - Can it be done in Hive? If not, any suggestions.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richin
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