Amazon Athena: no viable alternative at input

Question

While creating a table in Athena; it gives me following exception:

no viable alternative at input

Answer 1

This error generally occurs when the syntax of DDL has some silly errors.There are several answers that explain different errors based on there state.The simple solution to this problem is to patiently look into DDL and verify following points line by line:-

1. Check for missing commas
2. Unbalanced `(backtick operator)
3. Incompatible datatype not supported by HIVE(HIVE DATA TYPES REFERENCE)
4. Unbalanced comma
5. Hypen in table name