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SHOW TABLE STATS Statement throws error in Hive 1.1.0

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Expert Contributor

I am executing the query `SHOW TABLE STATS sampletable;` in Hive (1.1.0) and it throws the below error.

    hive> show table stats sampletable;
    MismatchedTokenException(26!=105)
            at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.recoverFromMismatchedToken(BaseRecognizer.java:617)
            at org.antlr.runtime.BaseRecognizer.match(BaseRecognizer.java:115)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.showStatement(HiveParser.java:21074)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.ddlStatement(HiveParser.java:2439)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.execStatement(HiveParser.java:1586)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:1062)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:201)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:166)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:404)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:305)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1119)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1167)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1055)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1045)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:207)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:159)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:370)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:757)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675)
            at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:615)
            at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
            at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
            at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
            at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
            at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)
    FAILED: ParseException line 1:11 mismatched input 'stats' expecting EXTENDED near 'table' in show statement 

I am using CDH 5.5.2 I have checked cloudera's document on this particular hive statement and looks like I am executing the right query. Here is the link to it. Not sure what the MismatchedTockenException is. Any help is on this, please?

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@Alex Raj

Have you run compute stats before running show table stats?

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@Alex Raj

Have you run compute stats before running show table stats?

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Expert Contributor

No @Sindhu.

I have not

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@Alex Raj

Were you able to see the stats post compute stats on the table?

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Expert Contributor

Hi @Sindhu, thanks for your followup. I was able to get the stats using the below query. Thank you again for your effort.

analyze table sampletable partition (year) compute statistics noscan;

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@Alex Raj

Please mark best answer to close the discussion.