Ok, if I select "Query Editors->Hive" and run the queries from that editor it looks much better. I think the problem is that your assumption is that everybody who starts this tutorial have some basic level of familiarity with the tools. I believe that newbies like me will fall into this trap unless you add a little bit more context or screenshots to this great tutorial. Thanks and kudos. ... View more

I have experienced the same issue when tried to pass the cloudera tutorials. By the way, I used the Live VM that cloudera provides and I suppose that tutorials (http://www.cloudera.com/developers/get-started-with-hadoop-tutorial/exercise-2.html) were tested using the same environments.   It would be nice if somebody will explain the root cause and also provide a workaround. Thank you in advance ... View more