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Prasad Mujumdar commented on HIVE-4144:
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+1
I have a couple of minor comments on the reviewboard, but those can be
addressed in separate patch later.
> Add "select database()" command to show the current database
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>
> Key: HIVE-4144
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4144
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: SQL
> Reporter: Mark Grover
> Assignee: Navis
> Attachments: D9597.5.patch, HIVE-4144.10.patch.txt,
> HIVE-4144.11.patch.txt, HIVE-4144.6.patch.txt, HIVE-4144.7.patch.txt,
> HIVE-4144.8.patch.txt, HIVE-4144.9.patch.txt, HIVE-4144.D9597.1.patch,
> HIVE-4144.D9597.2.patch, HIVE-4144.D9597.3.patch, HIVE-4144.D9597.4.patch
>
>
> A recent hive-user mailing list conversation asked about having a command to
> show the current database.
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hive-user/201303.mbox/%3CCAMGr+0i+CRY69m3id=DxthmUCWLf0NxpKMCtROb=uauh2va...@mail.gmail.com%3E
> MySQL seems to have a command to do so:
> {code}
> select database();
> {code}
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/information-functions.html#function_database
> We should look into having something similar in Hive.
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