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

My case: it was an external table and the location had a typo (hence didn't exist)

Couple of tips:

• Click the "Format query" button so you can spot errors easily
• Use the example at the bottom of the documentation - it works - and modify it with your parameters: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/create-table.html