This document describes enhanced aggregation features for the GROUP BY clause of SELECT statements.
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Grouping sets, CUBE and ROLLUP operators, and the GROUPING__ID function were added in Hive 0.10.0. |
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The GROUPING SETS clause in GROUP BY allows us to specify more than one GROUP BY options option in the same record set. All GROUPING clause query SET clauses can be logically expressed in terms of several GROUP BY queries connected by UNION. Table-1 shows several such equivalent statements. This is helpful in forming the idea of the GROUPING SETS clause. A blank set ( ) in the GROUPING SETS clause calculates the overall aggregate.
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Aggregate Query with GROUPING SETS | Equivalent Aggregate Query with GROUP BY |
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SELECT a, b, SUM(c) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a, b GROUPING SETS ( (a,b) ) | SELECT a, b, SUM(c) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a, b |
SELECT a, b, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a, b GROUPING SETS ( (a,b), a) | SELECT a, b, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a, b
SELECT a, null, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a |
SELECT a,b, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a, b GROUPING SETS (a,b) | SELECT a, null, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a
SELECT null, b, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY b |
SELECT a, b, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a, b GROUPING SETS ( (a, b), a, b, ( ) ) | SELECT a, b, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a, b
SELECT a, null, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY a, null
SELECT null, b, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 GROUP BY null, b
SELECT null, null, SUM( c ) FROM tab1 |
Grouping__ID function
When aggregates are displayed for a column its value is null. This may conflict in case the column itself has some null values. There needs to be some way to identify NULL in column, which means aggregate and NULL in column, which means value. GROUPING__ID function is the solution to that.
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