@Eric Lemmon What tutorial link are you using? If you are using this: http://hortonworks.com/hadoop-tutorial/getting-started-with-pivotal-hawq-on-hortonworks-sandbox/ ... then note that the above mentioned tutorial was designed for HAWQ 1.3, and is not a good one to use with 2.0 since a lot has changed. While a new tutorial is being crafted, you can try a few things previously posted by @Ali Bajwa and @Zack Odom: https://community.hortonworks.com/repos/48038/lending-club-demo.html https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/34193/install-hdb-hawq-via-ambari-and-use-zeppelin-for-v.html Finally, yes, the link above you mentioned a good place to start for using basic HAWQ commands, many of the commands are available via Ambari as well. ... View more