hive sql find the latest record

Question

the table is:

create table test (
id string,
name string,
age string,
modified string)

data like this:

id    name   age  modife         


        

Answer 1

If u can make sure that row which has max modified also has max age in same id row set.

Try

select id, name, max(age), max(modified) 
from test
group by id, name