It's odd that there is no such command. The trick Ramki mentioned is the only one I know of. Two points about it, though:
1. It only works on Hive v0.8+. 2. I've seen a few cases where the prompt did NOT change when first used, but starting working a little later! I have no idea why and of course, it happened while teaching a class where I'm supposed to be the expert ;) dean On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Ramki Palle <ramki.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sai, > > I do not think there is any command to show the current db in Hive. One > alternative for you is to set a property so that the current database is > shown as part of the prompt: > > set hive.cli.print.current.db=true; > > This one shows your current db as part of your hive prompt. > > Regards, > Ramki. > > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Sai Sai <saigr...@yahoo.in> wrote: > >> Just wondering if there is any command in Hive which will show us the >> current db we r using similar to pwd in Unix. >> Thanks >> Sai >> >> > -- *Dean Wampler, Ph.D.* thinkbiganalytics.com +1-312-339-1330
