Hive "select to_date(column2) from tablename"
04:00 08 Jun 2016

I having the below table structure:

Table name: test

Table Structure:col1 and col2 are Strings here.

col1 col2
"abc" "15/04/2016"
"def" "31/05/2016"

When I am trying to execute the below, it is showing NULL as the result.

select to_date(col2) from test;

Any idea why it not showing the col2 result.

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