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TINYINT | Y | 100Y |
SMALLINT | S | 100S |
BIGINT | L | 100L |
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Valid casts to/from Date type | Result |
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cast(date as date) | Same date value |
cast(timestamp as date) | The year/month/day of the timestamp is determined, based on the local timezone, and returned as a date value. |
cast(string as date) | If the string is in the form 'YYYY-MM-DD', then a date value corresponding to that year/month/day is returned. If the string value does not match this formate, then NULL is returned. |
cast(date as timestamp) | A timestamp value is generated corresponding to midnight of the year/month/day of the date value, based on the local timezone. |
cast(date as string) | The year/month/day represented by the Date is formatted as a string in the form 'YYYY-MM-DD'. |
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Decimal datatype was introduced in Hive 0.11.0 (HIVE-2693) and revised in Hive 0.13.0 (HIVE-3976). |
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CREATE TABLE foo ( a DECIMAL, -- Defaults to decimal(10,0) b DECIMAL(9, 7) ) |
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Integral literals larger than BIGINT must be handled with Decimal(38,0). The Postfix BD is required. Example:
select CAST(18446744073709001000BD AS DECIMAL(38,0)) from my_table limit 1;
Decimal Type Incompatibilities between Hive 0.12.0 and 0.13.0
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