Small Bites of Big Data from AzureCAT You’ve created your HDInsight Hadoop clusters and now you want to know exactly what you have out there in Azure. Maybe you want to pull the key information into a repository periodically as a reference for future troubleshooting, comparisons, or billing. Maybe you just need to get aContinue reading “Get HDInsight Properties with PowerShell”
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Sample PowerShell Script: HDInsight Custom Create
This is a working script I use to create various HDInsight clusters. For a really reproducible, automated environment you would want to put this into a .ps1 script that accepts parameters (see here for an example). However, you may find the method below good for learning and experimenting. Replace all the “YOURxyz” sections with yourContinue reading “Sample PowerShell Script: HDInsight Custom Create”
HDInsight: Hive Internal and External Tables Intro
Small Bites of Big Data Cindy Gross, SQLCAT PM HDInsight is Microsoft’s distribution, in partnership with Hortonworks, of Hadoop. Hive is the component of the Hadoop ecosystem that imposes structure on Hadoop data in a way that makes it usable from BI tools that expect rows and columns with defined data types. Hive tables canContinue reading “HDInsight: Hive Internal and External Tables Intro”