Github user ahirreddy commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/363#discussion_r11560720
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@@ -318,4 +391,24 @@ Row[] results = hiveCtx.hql("FROM src SELECT key,
value").collect();
</div>
+<div data-lang="python" markdown="1">
+
+When working with Hive one must construct a `HiveContext`, which inherits
from `SQLContext`, and
+adds support for finding tables in in the MetaStore and writing queries
using HiveQL. In addition to
+the `sql` method a `HiveContext` also provides an `hql` methods, which
allows queries to be
+expressed in HiveQL.
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It has it's own section earlier in the dock starting on line 338.
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