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Hive User FAQ

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General

I see errors like: Server access Error: Connection timed out url=http://archive.apache.org/dist/hadoop/core/hadoop-0.20.1/hadoop-0.20.1.tar.gz

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You can use Unicode string on data/comments, but cannot use for database/table/column name.

You can use UTF-8 encoding for Hive data. However, other encodings are not supported (HIVE-7142 introduce encoding for LazySimpleSerDe, however, the implementation is not complete and not address all cases).

HiveQL

Are HiveQL identifiers (e.g. table names, column names, etc) case sensitive?

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