Github user mateiz commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/363#discussion_r11554195
--- Diff: docs/sql-programming-guide.md ---
@@ -318,4 +391,24 @@ Row[] results = hiveCtx.hql("FROM src SELECT key,
value").collect();
</div>
+<div data-lang="python" markdown="1">
+
+When working with Hive one must construct a `HiveContext`, which inherits
from `SQLContext`, and
+adds support for finding tables in in the MetaStore and writing queries
using HiveQL. In addition to
+the `sql` method a `HiveContext` also provides an `hql` methods, which
allows queries to be
+expressed in HiveQL.
--- End diff --
I'm not sure if this is said earlier in the doc, but you should say how to
build Spark for Hive support.
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