https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Data-Type-Validation-in-Hive/m-p/143251#M105840 <P>You can do two things - create a Hive user defined function that validates each type. or use PIG to do this function prior to loading the data into Hive. </P> Thu, 12 May 2016 04:01:45 GMT PranayV 2016-05-12T04:01:45Z