little tips and tricks, which i stumbled upon randomly

Thursday, November 12, 2015

How to import/export workbooks in Datameer

To export workbook  curl -u <user>:<pass> -X GET http://<datameer_server>:8080/rest/workbook/<workbookid> > <fil_name>.json To import workbook:  curl -u <user>:<pass> -X POST -d @<file_name>.json...

Friday, August 7, 2015

How to find which process is holding file cache (disk space) in aix

fuser -dV <path&...

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

How to move data out of Informatica File Archive to Hadoop using sqoop

Although it seem hard and complicated. Once you discovered correct connection string and driver name getting data out of Informatica file archive with sqoop is pretty simple and straightforward. Unfortunately due to structure there is no way to specify...

Monday, July 27, 2015

Pig: ERROR 1070: Could not resolve org.apache.hcatalog.pig.HCatLoader - [Solved] - CDH 5.4.X+

Hi All; With new CDH versions class name for HCatalog loader changed. Unfortunately this is not documented clearly. Just change org.apache.hcatalog.pig.HCatLoader to org.apache.hive.hcatalog.pig.HCatLoader in your pig scripts to solve problem. I...

Monday, July 13, 2015

Datameer upgrade guide - Step by step instructions

Here is a list of instructions to upgrade Datameer.  It is basically unzip the new Datameer version into a new folder and copy over several files to the new version. Then you run a script that upgrades HSQLDB.  Step 0: Save all Datameer...

Monday, March 2, 2015

Solution to Failed to execute command Create Sqoop Database on service Sqoop 2 error

Depending on java configuration Sqoop2 database creation may fail to update derby drivers and may get "Failed to execute command Create Sqoop Database on service Sqoop 2" error. To solve this apply following steps: 1. Download derby derby client from db-derby-10.11.1.1-bin.zip 2....

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

UC4 Automic "Automatically deactivate when finished"

You can use following SQL to query "Automatically deactivate when finished" status from UC4 repository. select OH_IDNR, OH_NAME, CASE      WHEN JBA_AUTODEACT = 'A' THEN 'Always'     WHEN JBA_AUTODEACT = 'J' THEN 'After error-free...