Hive: Filtering Data between Specified Dates when Date is a String

Question

I\'m trying to filter data between September 1st, 2010 and August 31st, 2013 in a Hive table. The column containing the date is in string format (yyyy-mm-dd). I can use month()

Answer 1

No need to extract the month and year.Just need to use the unix_timestamp(date String,format String) function.

For Example:

select yourdate_column
from your_table
where unix_timestamp(yourdate_column, 'yyyy-MM-dd') >= unix_timestamp('2014-06-02', 'yyyy-MM-dd')
and unix_timestamp(yourdate_column, 'yyyy-MM-dd') <= unix_timestamp('2014-07-02','yyyy-MM-dd')
order by yourdate_column limit 10;