Hive Joins
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Join Syntax
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Only equality joins, outer joins, and left semi joins are supported in Hive. Hive does not support join conditions that are not equality conditions as it is very difficult to express such conditions as a map/reduce job. Also, more than two tables can be joined in Hive.
Examples
Some salient points to consider when writing join queries are as follows:
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