Hello Kais   From the error attached above I obsereved some issue with the file place under this directory[2][1], could you please confirm if this directory only contains files and not directories inside.   Pleas try with new location and place the corresponding file inside it.     [1] hdfs://quickstart.cloudera:8020/user/hive/warehouse/categories:25:24',   [2] Bad status for request TFetchResultsReq(fetchType=0, operationHandle=TOperationHandle(hasResultSet=True, modifiedRowCount=None, operationType=0, operationId=THandleIdentifier(secret='\xc3\xd7\x97\xd3coB\xa1\x90P\x9e\xab\x82\xa4\xf4A', guid='\x80\xa1\x93\xe2\x10\xefJ\xd9\xa3\xa3\xdb\x1f\x95\x85\x88\xb3')), orientation=4, maxRows=100): TFetchResultsResp(status=TStatus(errorCode=0, errorMessage='java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: Not a file: hdfs://quickstart.cloudera:8020/user/hive/warehouse/categories', sqlState=None, infoMessages=['*org.apache.hive.service.cli.HiveSQLException:java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: Not a file: hdfs://quickstart.cloudera:8020/user/hive/warehouse/categories:25:24', 'org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation:getNextRowSet:SQLOperation.java:463',   Thanks  Manpreet Singh ... View more