HDInsight on Windows: Building PowerPivot Report from Hive in a Few Easy Steps

1. HDInsight on Windows: Building PowerPivot Report from Hive in a Few Easy Steps
Topic - HDInsight on Windows: Building PowerPivot Report from Hive in a Few Easy Steps
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2. HDInsight on Windows: Building PowerPivot Report from Hive in a Few Easy Steps
What are we covering?
o Hive
 Create table
 Load Data
 Query Data
o Configure ODBC
o Create PowerPivot
 With DataSource as HDInsight
 Import Data from HDInsight
o Create Pivot Chat using imported data
(1)Open Hadoop Command Line
After installing HDInsight for Windows you will get Hadoop Command Line Shortcut on desktop
Click on Hadoop Command Line Shortcut and it will open Cmd Line for Hadoop
(2)Type Hive and it will change to Hive Command
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(3)Create Tables
CREATE TABLE emp(id int,name string)ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY
',';
CREATE TABLE sales(id int,sales int)ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',';
(4)Load Data using CSV Files
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'c:/data/emp.csv' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE emp;
LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'c:/data/sales.csv' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE sales;
(5) Open HDInsight Dashboard (You will find shortcut on desktop) and click on Download
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(6)Click on the appropriate link for your Excel.
(7)Configure ODBC
For configuring ODBC, Click start and type in ODBC. This will bring up the Data Sources dialog. Go to
the System DSN tab and click Add. Configure it with a Data Source Name, Your Host Information, and a
Username. In Single Node HDInsight Installation you don’t need to provide Username but if you are
using HDInsight on Azure you can provide Username.
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(8) Provider Data Source Name and Default Port is 10000
(9)Open Excel Sheet, select PowerPivot in ribbon and click on Manage
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(10)Click on Get External Data
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(11)Select – Get External Data and Data Import window and Select Others(OLEDB/ODBC)
(12)Click Build
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(13)Select OLE DB Provider for ODBC
(14)Select DSN which we have created earlier in step number 8, Select Database (In Single Node
HDInsight installation you don’t need to provider User Name and Password in current release but
in case of HDInsight on Azure you need to provide User Name and Password) and follow the
wizard for selecting tables in our case its EMP and Sales
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(15)If you Notice Relationship between Emp and Sales is absent so with one click we can create
relationship
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(16)Added feature like Calculated Measure name Sales and created a KPI
(17)Select Pivot of your Choice from PivotTable
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(18) Finally - you are good to go with PowerPivot Report based on Hive
Refer
HDInsight – What is it?
Configuring: PowerPivot for Excel 2013
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