Advancing Spark - Working with Hive

One of the core, vital stepping stones between a Data Lake and data consumers in the business is the ability to view the contents of a lake as a logical structure - Hive enables this and is the mechanism for presenting a data model out to BI tools such as Power BI and Tableau... but we keep meeting people who never use it!

This week, Simon goes back to the basics to give a quick intro tour to registering tables with Hive, then shows some of his favourite tricks to loop through an entire database, or register tables programmatically.