You're not casting the types.
Cassandra stores everything as bytes. You either need to set the 
key_validation_class to UTF8Type or use the utf8() function to convert.

http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/dml/using_cli


On 12-12-05 03:14 AM, Yogesh Dhari wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I am very new to Cassandra,
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> I am using version-1.1.7 and followed the steps on single node machine 
> mention in GETTING STARTED.
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> I have created key-space named as Demo and then tried to create column 
> family names Work as
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> [default@DEMO] create column family Work ;
> 5c85706f-87fe-38f1-b23f-c6180e45d178
> Waiting for schema agreement...
> ... schemas agree across the cluster
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> Now if I do..
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> [default@DEMO] set Work[1234][name] = scott ;
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> I got this error.
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> org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal.MarshalException: cannot parse 'name' 
> as hex bytes
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> Please help and suggest.
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> Thanks & Regards
> Yogesh Kumar
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