18 July 2017

Hue 4 SQL Editor improvements

Aloha SQL experts! For Hue 4 we've made numerous improvements to the Hive and Impala SQL editors greatly improving the SQL editor user experience. When working with Hive and Impala queries Hue will now provide you with autocomplete suggestions based on popularity as well as risk evaluation from Navigator Optimizer. A brand new assist panel has been added on the right hand side, containing details about the active statement as well as documentation for UDFs.…

2 minutes read - Version 4

13 July 2017

Hue 4 and its new interface is out!

Hi Big Data Explorers,  The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 4!  In this latest updates of Hue, the focus was on providing a modern UI tailored for Analytics on prem or in the Cloud. More than 3000 commits on top of 3.12 went in! Go grab the tarball release and give it a spin! Download Here is a list of the main improvements with links to more detailed blog posts.…

3 minutes read - Version 4 / Release

11 May 2017

SQL Autocomplete popup revamp and new Create table wizard

SQL Improvements The editor keeps getting better. Below you can read about a selection of recent major improvements. Autocomplete popup revamp Like in a regular code editor, the autocomplete is split in two parts. This is to prevent hangs while fetching the metadata of the current table or columns and to display more context information like the comments, type of objects, and their full names. Autocomplete before Autocomplete in new version Apache Kudu primary keys are directly represented Create table wizard If you’ve ever struggled with creating new SQL tables from files, you’ll be happy to learn that this is now much easier.…

2 minutes read - Version 4

10 April 2017

Job Browsing Improvements

Hue 3.12 comes with two significant job browsing improvements that make the navigation among thousands of jobs much simpler. Here is a demo describing the changes in detail. Extended Oozie Dashboard Filtering With this improvement, you can search for: Jobs with partial match on either the Name or Submitter of the job. Results across all pages and not just the page you are in. The one single job among thousands of submitted jobs by entering the complete ID.…

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03 April 2017

Hue with a custom logo!

We have seen in this previous blog post that there's a way to customize the top banner in Hue. In Hue 3.12 there's also the possibility to change the logo for further personalization! That's a perfect setting to show your company logo up there. Depending on if you are using Cloudera Manager or not, you should either add a safety valve or edit a .ini file to use this feature.…

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06 February 2017

Hue 3.12, the improved editor for SQL Developers and Analysts is out!

Hi Big Data Explorers,  The Hue Team is glad to thanks all the contributors and release Hue 3.12!  In this latest updates of Hue, the intelligent editor for SQL Developers and Analysts the focus was on the Editor and security. More than 1570 commits on top of 3.11 went in! Go grab the tarball release and give it a spin! Download Here is a list of the main improvements.…

5 minutes read - Release

15 January 2017

Team retreat in Malaysia and Cambodia!

Selamat pagi, ជំរាបសួរ! After the cold and beers of Riga, the team headed in South-East Asia for its next product development retreat and discovery of other cultures. There, nice (and humid) temperatures, visits of golden Buddhas, magnificent temples in Angkor Wat, tuk tuk rides, local spicy food were favorable to a lot of creativity and progress on the next parts of Hue! Onwards! Hue Team…

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22 December 2016

Oozie Improvements with email notifications and extended dashboard filtering

Hello Oozie users, Among other improvements, Hue 3.12 comes with two very useful updates in Oozie. Email Notifications With HUE-4995, it is very easy to send an email notification after a workflow execution is complete. The following steps will guide you to enable this. In the Workflow submission popup, if your email is not already setup, the email notification checkbox is disabled Clicking on profile button should take you to the u_seradmin_ page, where you can save your email.…

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22 December 2016

SQL Improvements with row counts, sample popup and more

The Hue editor keeps getting better. Previously, we showed the new autocomplete and result refining. Here is a list of improvements coming in Hue 3.12:  Row count The number of rows returned is displayed so you can quickly seehe size of the dataset. If the database engine does not provide the number of rows, Hue estimates the value and appends a plus sign, e.g. 100+. Sample popup This popup offers a quick way to see sample of the data and other statistics on databases, tables, and columns.…

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22 December 2016

Upload large archive files to HDFS and extract them in the background

Hello Hue users, Hue supports extraction of Zip, Tgz and Bz2 archives via File Browser app. With this improvement, you will be able to perform the archive extraction as an external Oozie job that has no performance impact on Hue. Here are the steps to achieve this. First, upload the archive as a file using the File Browser app. Select the archive you want to extract and you will notice that Submit button appear besides the Trash button.…

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