https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/hive-view-NullPointerException/m-p/191801#M153880 <P>@<A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/2528/jyadav.html">Jitendra Yadav</A></P><P>Atlas in the mix? Any data tagged? </P><P>This indicates that one of the tables involved in the view join where the field is involved in the join is passing a null value when a not null is expected. I've seen this type of behavior with tagged data on base tables for the view. </P><P>Is there more in hive log? The error excerpt above is just a symptom of passing a null object when one is required, not very helpful.</P><P>To test the assumption presented above you could test whether you can query step by step the base tables with the same where clause, but without the join.</P> Wed, 31 May 2017 02:56:40 GMT cstanca 2017-05-31T02:56:40Z