This post is a tutorial to get started on Hive in HDInsight.

The steps to be followed are given below. As a pre-requisite you would need a subscription to Microsoft Azure to try out these steps

Provision Azure Storage Account
Provision HDInsight Cluster
Create Hive Database and Tables
Prepare Data as Ctrl-A separated Text Files
Upload Text Files to Azure Storage
Load Data to Hive
Execute HiveQL DML Jobs
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Update 18-June-2014

Please refer to Working with Hive in HDInsight which the updated version of this post. The orginal post was written when HDInsight was a separate entity and in preview mode. Since then HDInsight has been completely integrated into Microsoft Azure cloud services. The concepts explained in this post still holds, however some of the instructions and screen captures have changed significantly. So I would recommend you to refer to the updated version of this post
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Working with Hive in HDInsight

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