How to get min and max from 7 columns in Hive Hue excluding zeros

Question

I have a table which has 9 columns. Below is the structure of it

I need the min and max of these columns for a row excluding zeros. Below is the required table structure

If you see the columns min and max, min is minimum of 7 cols (col1 to col7) in a particular row excluding zero and max is the maximum of the 7 cols (col1 to col7) for that row.

Please help me to accomplish this in hive (hue).

Answer 1

You can use least and greatest to get the min and max, and use when to remove 0 .

select *,
    least(
        case when col1 != 0 then col1 else 99999999 end,
        case when col2 != 0 then col2 else 99999999 end,
        case when col3 != 0 then col3 else 99999999 end,
        case when col4 != 0 then col4 else 99999999 end,
        case when col5 != 0 then col5 else 99999999 end,
        case when col6 != 0 then col6 else 99999999 end,
        case when col7 != 0 then col7 else 99999999 end,
    ) as `Min`
    greatest(
        case when col1 != 0 then col1 else -99999999 end,
        case when col2 != 0 then col2 else -99999999 end,
        case when col3 != 0 then col3 else -99999999 end,
        case when col4 != 0 then col4 else -99999999 end,
        case when col5 != 0 then col5 else -99999999 end,
        case when col6 != 0 then col6 else -99999999 end,
        case when col7 != 0 then col7 else -99999999 end
    ) as `Max`
from mytable

Answer 2

You can use an explicit case expression:

select (case when col1 <> 0 and col1 >= col2 and col1 >= col3 and col1 > =col4 and col1 >= col5 and col1 >= col6 and col1 >= col7
             then col1
             . . .
        end)

This is a lot of typing. It probably suggests that your data is stored incorrectly -- you should have separate rows for each column. You can mimic this by expanding the data and reaggrating:

select name, state, col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6, col7,
       min(case when col1 <> 0 then col1 end) as min_value,
       max(case when col1 <> 0 then col1 end) as max_value,
from ((select t.*, col1 as col from t) union all
      (select t.*, col2 as col from t) union all
      (select t.*, col3 as col from t) union all
      (select t.*, col4 as col from t) union all
      (select t.*, col5 as col from t) union all
      (select t.*, col6 as col from t) union all
      (select t.*, col7 as col from t)
     ) x
group by name, state, col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6, col7;