Analyzing Data in Hive TablesΒΆ

Use the Explore page to analyze Hive data. By default, the page displays the Qubole Hive metastore.

See Configuring Thrift Metastore Server Interface for the Custom Metastore for more information.

From the Hive metastore, select the Hive table that requires data analysis. Click the icon ExpActionIcon.

A drop-down list is displayed as shown in the following figure.

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Choose Analyze Data from the list.

The query composer in opens in a new tab where you can compose your query.

Click Run to execute a query. The query result is displayed in the Results tab.

A sample Hive query with a successful result is shown in the following figure.

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