I suppose the %sql means %spark.sql, in that case you need to modify the hive-site.xml under SPARK_CONF_DIR
Richard Xin <richardxin...@yahoo.com>于2017年8月3日周四 上午9:21写道: > on AWS EMR > I am trying to bind zeppelin to an existing hive metastore, I modified > hive-site.xml under /etc/hive/conf to pointing to existing metastore, and I > tested with commandline hive, it works as expected. > but under zeppelin %sql is still connected to previous hive metastore, > I added line > export HIVE_CONF_DIR=/etc/hive/conf > inside zeppelin-env.sh > > > And /etc/spark/conf's spark-env.sh has following line by default: > export HIVE_CONF_DIR=${HIVE_CONF_DIR:-/etc/hive/conf} > > What did I miss? > > Thanks >