Thanks Elliot,
Sounds like that table was created as create table tt as select * from t. Although the original table t was created as transactional shown below, the table tt is not! 0: jdbc:hive2://rhes564:10010/default> show create table t; +-------------------------------------------------------------+--+ | createtab_stmt | +-------------------------------------------------------------+--+ | CREATE TABLE `t`( | | `owner` varchar(30), | | `object_name` varchar(30), | | `subobject_name` varchar(30), | | `object_id` bigint, | | `data_object_id` bigint, | | `object_type` varchar(19), | | `created` timestamp, | | `last_ddl_time` timestamp, | | `timestamp2` varchar(19), | | `status` varchar(7), | | `temporary2` varchar(1), | | `generated` varchar(1), | | `secondary` varchar(1), | | `namespace` bigint, | | `edition_name` varchar(30), | | `padding1` varchar(4000), | | `padding2` varchar(3500), | | `attribute` varchar(32), | | `op_type` int, | | `op_time` timestamp, | | `new_col` varchar(30)) | | CLUSTERED BY ( | | object_id) | | INTO 256 BUCKETS | | ROW FORMAT SERDE | | 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcSerde' | | STORED AS INPUTFORMAT | | 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcInputFormat' | | OUTPUTFORMAT | | 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcOutputFormat' | | LOCATION | | 'hdfs://rhes564:9000/user/hive/warehouse/asehadoop.db/t' | | TBLPROPERTIES ( | | 'COLUMN_STATS_ACCURATE'='false', | | 'last_modified_by'='hduser', | | 'last_modified_time'='1449831076', | | 'numFiles'='17', | | 'numRows'='-1', | | 'orc.bloom.filter.columns'='object_id', | | 'orc.bloom.filter.fpp'='0.05', | | 'orc.compress'='SNAPPY', | | 'orc.create.index'='true', | | 'orc.row.index.stride'='10000', | | 'orc.stripe.size'='268435456', | | 'rawDataSize'='-1', | | 'totalSize'='64438212', | | 'transactional'='true', | | 'transient_lastDdlTime'='1449831076') | +-------------------------------------------------------------+--+ 49 rows selected (0.06 seconds) Mich Talebzadeh Sybase ASE 15 Gold Medal Award 2008 A Winning Strategy: Running the most Critical Financial Data on ASE 15 http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908.pdf Author of the books "A Practitioner’s Guide to Upgrading to Sybase ASE 15", ISBN 978-0-9563693-0-7. co-author "Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices", ISBN 978-0-9759693-0-4 Publications due shortly: Complex Event Processing in Heterogeneous Environments, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-3-8 Oracle and Sybase, Concepts and Contrasts, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-1-4, volume one out shortly http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> NOTE: The information in this email is proprietary and confidential. This message is for the designated recipient only, if you are not the intended recipient, you should destroy it immediately. Any information in this message shall not be understood as given or endorsed by Peridale Technology Ltd, its subsidiaries or their employees, unless expressly so stated. It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that this email is virus free, therefore neither Peridale Ltd, its subsidiaries nor their employees accept any responsibility. From: Elliot West [mailto:tea...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 December 2015 16:57 To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: Attempt to do update or delete using transaction manager that does not support these operations. (state=42000,code=10294) Hi, The input/output formats do not appear to be ORC, have you tried 'stored as orc'? Additionally you'll need to set the property 'transactional=true' on the table. Do you have the original create table statement? Cheers - Elliot. On Tuesday, 22 December 2015, Mich Talebzadeh <m...@peridale.co.uk <mailto:m...@peridale.co.uk> > wrote: Hi, I am trying this code on table tt defined as an ORC table 0: jdbc:hive2://rhes564:10010/default> show create table tt; +-----------------------------------------------------------------+--+ | createtab_stmt | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+--+ | CREATE TABLE `tt`( | | `owner` varchar(30), | | `object_name` varchar(30), | | `subobject_name` varchar(30), | | `object_id` bigint, | | `data_object_id` bigint, | | `object_type` varchar(19), | | `created` timestamp, | | `last_ddl_time` timestamp, | | `timestamp2` varchar(19), | | `status` varchar(7), | | `temporary2` varchar(1), | | `generated` varchar(1), | | `secondary` varchar(1), | | `namespace` bigint, | | `edition_name` varchar(30), | | `padding1` varchar(4000), | | `padding2` varchar(3500), | | `attribute` varchar(32), | | `op_type` int, | | `op_time` timestamp, | | `new_col` varchar(30)) | | ROW FORMAT SERDE | | 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe' | | STORED AS INPUTFORMAT | | 'org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextInputFormat' | | OUTPUTFORMAT | | 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveIgnoreKeyTextOutputFormat' | | LOCATION | | 'hdfs://rhes564:9000/user/hive/warehouse/asehadoop.db/tt' | | TBLPROPERTIES ( | | 'COLUMN_STATS_ACCURATE'='true', | | 'numFiles'='546', | | 'numRows'='8299588', | | 'rawDataSize'='18611443520', | | 'totalSize'='18619743108', | | 'transient_lastDdlTime'='1450337155') | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+--+ The following delete statement: delete from tt where exists(select 1 from t where tt.object_id = t.object_id); Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10294]: Attempt to do update or delete using transaction manager that does not support these operations. (state=42000,code=10294) Mich Talebzadeh Sybase ASE 15 Gold Medal Award 2008 A Winning Strategy: Running the most Critical Financial Data on ASE 15 http://login.sybase.com/files/Product_Overviews/ASE-Winning-Strategy-091908.pdf Author of the books "A Practitioner’s Guide to Upgrading to Sybase ASE 15", ISBN 978-0-9563693-0-7. co-author "Sybase Transact SQL Guidelines Best Practices", ISBN 978-0-9759693-0-4 Publications due shortly: Complex Event Processing in Heterogeneous Environments, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-3-8 Oracle and Sybase, Concepts and Contrasts, ISBN: 978-0-9563693-1-4, volume one out shortly http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com <http://talebzadehmich.wordpress.com/> NOTE: The information in this email is proprietary and confidential. This message is for the designated recipient only, if you are not the intended recipient, you should destroy it immediately. 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