How to select current date in Hive SQL

Question

How do we get the current system date in Hive? In MySQL we have select now(), can any one please help me to get the query results. I am very new to Hive, is there a proper d

Answer 1

The functions current_date and current_timestamp are now available in Hive 1.2.0 and higher, which makes the code a lot cleaner.