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Unable to create a table in hive

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CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS employee (eid int, name String,
salary String)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘\t’
LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’
STORED AS TEXTFILE;

I'm getting the below error:

MismatchedTokenException(26!=298)
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.tableRowFormatFieldIdentifier(HiveParser.java:31777)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.rowFormatDelimited(HiveParser.java:30730)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.tableRowFormat(HiveParser.java:31006)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.createTableStatement(HiveParser.java:4677)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.ddlStatement(HiveParser.java:2138)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.execStatement(HiveParser.java:1392)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:1030)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:199)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:166)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:417)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:335)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1026)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1091)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:962)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:952)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:269)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:221)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:431)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:800)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:694)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:633)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212)
FAILED: ParseException line 3:44 mismatched input 't' expecting StringLiteral near 'BY' in table row format's field separator

Even iIf I use '\073' , I'm getting the error:

MismatchedTokenException(287!=298)
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.tableRowFormatFieldIdentifier(HiveParser.java:31777)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.rowFormatDelimited(HiveParser.java:30730)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.tableRowFormat(HiveParser.java:31006)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.createTableStatement(HiveParser.java:4677)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.ddlStatement(HiveParser.java:2138)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.execStatement(HiveParser.java:1392)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:1030)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:199)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ParseDriver.parse(ParseDriver.java:166)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:417)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:335)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1026)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1091)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:962)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:952)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:269)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:221)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:431)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:800)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:694)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:633)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212)
FAILED: ParseException line 3:44 mismatched input '073' expecting StringLiteral near 'BY' in table row format's field separator

Please let me know how to fix this.

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

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Super Guru

@Sivakumar Mahalingam,

I guess the problem is with quotes. use ' instead of ’

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Super Guru

@Sivakumar Mahalingam,

I guess the problem is with quotes. use ' instead of ’