Hi Maheedhar As I understand, you are having a column with data of type MM:SS in your input data set.
AFAIK this format is not in the standard java.sql.Timestamp format also it doesn't even have any date part . Hence you may not be able to use Timestamp data type here. You can define it as a string and then develop your custom UDFs for any further processing. Regards Bejoy KS Sent from remote device, Please excuse typos -----Original Message----- From: Matouk IFTISSEN <matouk.iftis...@ysance.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:47:11 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Need help in Hive Hello, Try this function in hive query: 1- transform your data (type integer ) in timestamp (linux), then do this: 2- from_unixtimeyour_date_timestamp), 'mm:ss') AS time Hope this, you will give help. 2013/7/8 Maheedhar Reddy <maheedhar...@gmail.com> > Hi All, > > I have Hive 0.8.0 version installed in my single node Apache Hadoop > cluster. > > I have a time column which is in format *MM:SS* (Minutes:seconds). I > tried the date functions to get the value in MM:SS format. But its not > working out. > > Below is my column for your reference. > > *Active Time* > *12:01* > 0:20 > 2:18 > > in the first record 12:01, 12 is the number of minutes and 01 is the > seconds. > > so when the time i'm creating a table in Hive, i have to give a data type > for this column Active Time, > I have tried with various date type columns but none of them worked out > for me. Please guide me. > > What function should I use, to get the time in *MM:SS* format? > > > "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." > > > Cheers!! > > Maheedhar Reddy K V > > > http://about.me/maheedhar.kv/# > >
