MismatchedTokenException on hive create table query

Question

I'm trying to create a Hive table with the following query:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS BXDataSet 
    (ISBN STRING, 
    BookTitle STRING, 
    BookAuthor STRING, 
    YearOfPublication STRING, 
    Publisher STRING, 
    ImageURLS STRING, 
    ImageURLM STRING, 
    ImageURLL STRING) 
COMMENT 'BX-Books Table' 
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';' LINE TERMINATED BY '\n'
STORED AS TEXTFILE;

How when I submitted to Hive I got the following exception:

MismatchedTokenException(-1!=301)
    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:31433)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.rowFormatDelimited(HiveParser.java:30386)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.tableRowFormat(HiveParser.java:30662)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.createTableStatement(HiveParser.java:4683)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.ddlStatement(HiveParser.java:2144)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.execStatement(HiveParser.java:1398)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.HiveParser.statement(HiveParser.java:1036)
    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:404)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:322)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:975)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1040)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:911)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:901)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:268)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:220)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:423)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:792)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:686)
    at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625)
    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.main(RunJar.java:212)
FAILED: ParseException line 10:43 mismatched input '<EOF>' expecting StringLiteral near 'BY' in table row format's field separator

Hive is correctly installed, I'm able to run things like show tables. So, what is the issue with this query?

Answer 1

You need to specify delimiter's OCT code .

That is for ; OCT code is 073

  CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS BXDataSet 
(ISBN STRING, 
BookTitle STRING, 
BookAuthor STRING, 
YearOfPublication STRING, 
Publisher STRING, 
ImageURLS STRING, 
ImageURLM STRING, 
ImageURLL STRING) 
COMMENT 'BX-Books Table' 
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\073' LINE TERMINATED BY '\n'
 STORED AS TEXTFILE;