Hive error: parseexception missing EOF - hadoop

Question

I am not sure what I am doing wrong here:
hive> CREATE TABLE default.testtbl(int1 INT,string1 STRING)
stored as orc
tblproperties ("orc.compress"="NONE")
LOCATION "/user/hive/test_table";
FAILED: ParseException line 1:107 missing EOF at 'LOCATION' near ')'
while the following query works perfectly fine:
hive> CREATE TABLE default.testtbl(int1 INT,string1 STRING)
stored as orc
tblproperties ("orc.compress"="NONE");
OK
Time taken: 0.106 seconds
Am I missing something here. Any pointers will help. Thanks!

Answer 1

Try put the "LOCATION" in front of "tblproperties" like below, worked for me.
CREATE TABLE default.testtbl(int1 INT,string1 STRING)
stored as orc
LOCATION "/user/hive/test_table"
tblproperties ("orc.compress"="NONE");
It seems even the sample SQL from book "Programming Hive" got the order wrong. Please reference to the official definition of create table command:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-CreateTable

Answer 2

#Haiying Wang pointed out that LOCATION is to be put in front of tblproperties.
But I think the error also occurs when location is specified above stored as.
Its better to stick to the correct order:
CREATE [TEMPORARY] [EXTERNAL] TABLE [IF NOT EXISTS] [db_name.]table_name -- (Note: TEMPORARY available in Hive 0.14.0 and later)
[(col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ... [constraint_specification])]
[COMMENT table_comment]
[PARTITIONED BY (col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...)]
[CLUSTERED BY (col_name, col_name, ...) [SORTED BY (col_name [ASC|DESC], ...)] INTO num_buckets BUCKETS]
[SKEWED BY (col_name, col_name, ...) -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.10.0 and later)]
ON ((col_value, col_value, ...), (col_value, col_value, ...), ...)
[STORED AS DIRECTORIES]
[
[ROW FORMAT row_format]
[STORED AS file_format]
| STORED BY 'storage.handler.class.name' [WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (...)] -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.6.0 and later)
]
[LOCATION hdfs_path]
[TBLPROPERTIES (property_name=property_value, ...)] -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.6.0 and later)
[AS select_statement]; -- (Note: Available in Hive 0.5.0 and later; not supported for external tables)
Refer: Hive Create Table

Answer 3

Check this post:
Loading Data from a .txt file to Table Stored as ORC in Hive
And check your source files present at the specified directory /user/hive/test_table. Incase the files are in .txt or some other non ORC format then you can follow the steps in the above post to come out of the error.

Answer 4

ParseException line lineNumber missing EOF at '.' near 'schemaName':
Got the above error while trying to execute the following command from linux script to truncate a hive table
dse -u username -p password hive -e "truncate table keyspace.tablename;"
Fix:
Need to separate the commands within the script line as follows -
dse -u username -p password hive -e "use keyspace; truncate table keyspace.tablename;"
Happy coding!

Answer 5

Got the same error while creating a table in hive.
I used the drop command to drop the table and then run the create table command that I had again.
Worked for me.

Answer 6

If you see this error when running the HiveQL from a file with the command "hive -f file.hql". And that it points the first line of your query most definitely this is because of a forgotten semicolon(;) for a previous query.
Since parser looks for semicolon(;) as a terminator for each query.
for example:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS default.emp
create table default.emp (
field1 type,
field2 type)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|'
STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION 's3://gts-promocube/source-data/Lowes/POS/';
If you save the above in a file and execute it with hive -f, then you'll get the error:
FAILED: ParseException line 2:0 missing EOF at 'CREATE' near emp.
Solution: Put a semicolon(;) for the DROP TABLE command above.