Dual table in Hive

Since there is no Dual table in Hive..

I have created a dummy dual with dummy value ‘X’.

hive> CREATE TABLE dual (dummy STRING);

hive> load data local inpath '/local/user/dw/hive/dual.txt' overwrite into table dual;

Now we can use this table to select string values. Like

hive> select 'name','place','age' from dual;

to get current timestamp

hive> select unix_timestamp() from dual;