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Beeline equivalent of hive command line potion: --database

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hive has --database option to select database.

--database <databasename>     Specify the database to use

 What is the beeline equivalent of the same?

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@Ane ,

 

You can specify the database as part of the JDBC URI you pass to beeline. For example:

beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://<hostname>:10000/<dbname>"

 

HTH,

André

 

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@Ane ,

 

You can specify the database as part of the JDBC URI you pass to beeline. For example:

beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://<hostname>:10000/<dbname>"

 

HTH,

André

 

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