Github user dyozie commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-hawq-docs/pull/90#discussion_r97890133 --- Diff: markdown/pxf/HivePXF.html.md.erb --- @@ -134,14 +134,30 @@ Create a Hive table to expose our sample data set. hive> LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/tmp/pxf_hive_datafile.txt' INTO TABLE sales_info; ``` + + In examples later in this section, you will access the `sales_info` Hive table directly via PXF. You will also insert `sales_info` data into tables of other Hive file format types, and use PXF to access those directly as well. 3. Perform a query on `sales_info` to verify that the data was loaded successfully: ``` sql hive> SELECT * FROM sales_info; ``` -In examples later in this section, you will access the `sales_info` Hive table directly via PXF. You will also insert `sales_info` data into tables of other Hive file format types, and use PXF to access those directly as well. +### <a id="get_hdfs_file_location"></a>Determine the HDFS location of a Hive Table + +Should you need to identify the HDFS file location of a Hive managed table, you will reference it using its HDFS file path. You can determine a Hive table's location in HDFS using the `DESCRIBE` command, for example: --- End diff -- Small edit - remove "you will"
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