Hive ParseException - cannot recognize input near 'end' 'string'

Question

I am getting the following error when trying to create a Hive table from an existing DynamoDB table:

NoViableAltException(88@[])
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.par         


        

Answer 1

You can always escape the reserved keyword if you still want to make your query work!!

Just replace end with `end`

Here is the list of reserved keywords https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE moveProjects (cid string, `end` string, category string)
STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.dynamodb.DynamoDBStorageHandler'
TBLPROPERTIES ("dynamodb.table.name" = "Projects",
    "dynamodb.column.mapping" = "cid:cid,end:end,category:category");