As I previously did a blog post on Querying SQL Server with something LIKE a regular expression (Using simple regular expressions in a LIKE statement), I thought I would use that as a segue into Apache Hive and HiveQL. Because Hive and therefore HiveQL is built using Java, it has the full power of Java regular…
Hive doesn’t have the functions LEFT() and RIGHT() as used in other RDBMS/SQL platforms. Here I demonstrate using hive functions for parsing text values which can emulate LEFT and RIGHT.
Most of us are familiar with the LIKE command in SQL Server (and other DBMS environments), but few venture beyond simple text matching and the ‘%’ wildcard. It’s ability to use some regular expression (a.k.a. regex or regexp) syntax is a surprise to many. For this article, I’m assuming that readers have already used the…