Hive ParseException - cannot recognize input near end string

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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 parse HiveParser IdentifiersParser identifier HiveParser IdentifiersParser java 9123  at org apache hadoop hive ql parse HiveParser identifier HiveParser java 30750     more stack trace    FAILED  ParseException line 1 77 cannot recognize input near  end   string      in column specification   The query looks like this  simplified to protect the innocent    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      Basically  I am trying to create a Hive table containing the contents of the Projects DynamoDB table  but the create statement is throwing a parse error from Hive   Hadoop

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I solved this issue by doing like that   insert into my table my field 0       my field n  values my value 0       my value n

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I was using  Date 20161003 in the folder path while doing an insert overwrite and it was failing  I changed it to  Dt 20161003 and it worked

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The issue isn t actually a syntax error  the Hive ParseException is just caused by a reserved keyword in Hive  in this case  end   The solution  use backticks around the offending column name  CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE moveProjects  cid string   end  string  category string  STORED BY  org apache hadoop hive dynamodb DynamoDBStorageHandler  TBLPROPERTIES   quot dynamodb table name quot     quot Projects quot        quot dynamodb column mapping quot     quot cid cid end end category category quot     With the added backticks around end  the query works as expected  Reserved words in Amazon Hive  as of February 2013    IF  HAVING  WHERE  SELECT  UNIQUEJOIN  JOIN  ON  TRANSFORM  MAP  REDUCE  TABLESAMPLE  CAST  FUNCTION  EXTENDED  CASE  WHEN  THEN  ELSE  END  DATABASE  CROSS  Source  This Hive ticket from the Facebook Phabricator tracker

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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

[hadoop] Hive ParseException - cannot recognize input near 'end' 'string'

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