Error while creating table in Hive - hive

Question

I am new to hadoop. I need a help regarding error encountered in Hive while creating a new table. I have gone through this Hive FAILED: ParseException line 2:0 cannot recognize input near ''macaddress'' 'CHAR' '(' in column specification
My question: Is it necessary to write a location of the table in the script? because I am writing table location at starting and I am afraid about writing the location because it should not disturb my rest of the databases by any mulfunction operation.
Here is my query:
CREATE TABLE meta_statistics.tank_items (
shop_offers_history_before bigint,
shop_offers_temp bigint,
videos_distinct_temp bigint,
deleted_temp bigint,
t_stamp timestamp )
CLUSTERED BY (
tank_items_id)
INTO 8 BUCKETS
ROW FORMAT SERDE
TBLPROPERTIES (transactional=true)
STORED AS ORC;
The error I am getting is-
ParseException line 1:3 cannot recognize input near 'TBLPROPERTIES'
'(' 'transactional'
What would be the other possibilities of errors and how can I remove those?

Answer 1

There is a syntax error in your create query. Error which you have shared says that hive cannot recognize input near 'TBLPROPERTIES'.
Solution:
As per hive syntax, the key value passed in TBLPROPERTIES should be in double quotes. it should be like this: TBLPROPERTIES ("transactional"="true")
So if I correct your query it will be:
CREATE TABLE meta_statistics.tank_items (
shop_offers_history_before bigint,
shop_offers_temp bigint,
videos_distinct_temp bigint,
deleted_temp bigint,
t_stamp timestamp
) CLUSTERED BY (tank_items_id) INTO 8 BUCKETS
ROW FORMAT SERDE TBLPROPERTIES ("transactional"="true") STORED AS ORC;
Execute above query, then if you get any other syntax error them make sure that the order of STORED AS , CLUSTERED BY , TBLPROPERTIES is as per the hive syntax.
Refer this for more details:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-CreateTable

Answer 2

1) ROW FORMAT SERDE -> you should pass some serde
2) TBLPROPERTIES key value should be in double quotes
3) if you give CLUSTERED BY value should be there in the columns given
replace as follows
CREATE TABLE meta_statistics.tank_items ( shop_offers_history_before bigint, shop_offers_temp bigint, videos_distinct_temp bigint, deleted_temp bigint, t_stamp timestamp ) CLUSTERED BY (shop_offers_history_before) INTO 8 BUCKETS ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.OpenCSVSerde' STORED AS ORC TBLPROPERTIES ("transactional"="true");
hope this helps