https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Beeline-u-quot-JDBC-hive2-url-quot-n-username-gives-error/m-p/176872#M139122 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/11386/gauravmallik12.html" nodeid="11386">@Gaurav Mallikarjuna</A> Try the below command and see if it works for you. </P><P>In my environment, hive.server2.zookeeper.namespace is set to hiveserver2. Try to put the command within quotes. </P><P>[hdfs@hadoopnn01 ~]$ beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://hadoopnn01.infoshop.com.tr:2181,hadoop01.infoshop.com.tr:2181,hadoopnn02.infoshop.com.tr:2181/;serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2" WARNING: Use "yarn jar" to launch YARN applications. Connecting to jdbc:hive2://hadoopnn01.infoshop.com.tr:2181,hadoop01.infoshop.com.tr:2181,hadoopnn02.infoshop.com.tr:2181/;serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2 Connected to: Apache Hive (version 1.2.1000.2.4.3.0-227) Driver: Hive JDBC (version 1.2.1000.2.4.3.0-227) Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ Beeline version 1.2.1000.2.4.3.0-227 by Apache Hive 0: jdbc:hive2://hadoopnn01.infoshop.com.tr:21&gt;</P><P><A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/1342/how-to-enable-zookeeper-discovery-for-hiveserver2.html" target="_blank">https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/1342/how-to-enable-zookeeper-discovery-for-hiveserver2.html</A></P> Mon, 10 Jul 2017 01:17:23 GMT shyamshaw 2017-07-10T01:17:23Z