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Accessing and using Hue in Cloudera Data Warehouse

Get started using Hue by analyzing and visualizing your data with Impala and Hive SQL query engines.

To try Hue without having an account, try running sample queries on http://demo.gethue.com/.

Hue uses your LDAP credentials that you have configured for the CDP cluster.

  1. Log into the CDP web interface and navigate to the Data Warehouse service.
  2. In the Data Warehouse service, navigate to the Overview page.
  3. To run Impala queries:
    1. On the Overview page under Virtual Warehouses, click on the Hue button.
      The query editor is displayed:


    2. Click a database to view the tables it contains.
      When you click a database, it sets it as the target of your query in the main query editor panel.
    3. Type a query in the editor panel and click the run icon to run the query.
  4. To run Hive queries:
    1. On the Overview page under Virtual Warehouses, click on the Hue button.
      The Hive query editor is displayed:


    2. Click a database to view the tables it contains.
      When you click a database, it sets it as the target of your query in the main query editor panel.
    3. Type a query in the editor panel and click the run icon to run the query.