Hi yogesh What about a query like this select name from ABC WHERE grp=MAX(grp);
Regards Bejoy KS Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: Chen Song <chen.song...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:33:11 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: ERROR: Hive subquery showing Can you try this? * * *select name from ( select MAX(grp) as name from ABC ) gy ;* On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:29 PM, yogesh dhari <yogeshdh...@live.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a table called ABC, like > > name grp > A 1 > B 2 > C 4 > D 8 > > I want the output like the name having greatest grp i.e D; > > I wrote a query: > * > select name from ( select MAX(grp) from ABC ) gy ;* > > but it gives error > > FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Line 1:7 Invalid table alias or column > reference 'name': (possible column names are: _col0) > > Please help and suggest why it is so, and what would be the query; > > > Thanks & regards > Yogesh Kumar > > > > > > -- Chen Song
