Glad you are making progress. The command you are looking for is actually  LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH ... Note that you missed LOCAL keyword. Without the LOCAL keyword, hive will look for a table in hdfs, which is why you see the error "No files matching path hdfs://quickstart.cloudera:8020/users/melissava...". It's because hive is trying to look in the hdfs, instead of you local machine. ... View more