Sorry for the late reply.   I reinstalled the Quickstart VM (created a new VM) and all exercises worked just fine :). I guess I touched/tweaked some settings in Cloudera Manager that caused some hadoop services to fail or stopped running. Too eager/curious/excited with Cloudera Hadoop environment :)). ... View more

Hi,   I am also in Impala and doing the same exercise (2) creating tables. I got the same error (Analysis Exception.....Syntax error).   I increased the VM RAM to 8GB (with 2 CPUs) but I still get the errors.   In Hue everything is ok, no config issues. But when I ran 'sudo service impala-server status'  in the terminal, the impala server is not running. Did the same for impala-state-store and impala-catalog. They are not running as well.   Any idea/solution/help would be appreciated.   I'm newbie to Hadoop and just started learning.   Thanks, Edward ... View more