MCQs
Variable substitution to apply to hive commands. e.g. -d A=B or “define A=B.
You can embed the schema directly into the create statement.
Integral literals are assumed to be INT by default, unless the number exceeds the range of INT in which case it is interpreted as a BIGINT, or if one of the following postfixes is present on the number.
String literals can be expressed with either single quotes (') or double quotes (").
Use none to ignore either avro.schema.literal or avro.schema.url.
Three namespaces for variables are hiveconf, system, and env.
CSV and TSV output formats are maintained for backward compatibility.
The hiveconf variables are set as normalby set x=myvalue.
AvroSerde understands compressed Avro files.
hcat commands can be issued as hive commands, and vice versa.