Over the last few weeks I’ve fielded some questions concerning the paper that Dave Mariani (@dmariani) and I had contributed to the whitepaper / case study SQL Server Analysis Services to Hive; below is an aggregate of those tips – hope this helps!

Q: I’m running into the HiveODBC Error message “..expected data length is 334…”

A: Check out the post for details on how to potentially resolve this: HiveODBC error message “..expected data length is 334…”

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Q: Can I connect Analysis Services Tabular to Hive instead of Multidimensional?

A: Yes! Ayad Shammout (@aashammout) has a couple of great blog posts that dig into exactly how to do this; it is similar to how PowerPivot can connect to Hive.

Import Hadoop Data into Analysis Services Tabular

SSAS Tabular using HiveODBC connection

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Q: The original  SQL Server Analysis Services to Hive whitepaper had Analysis…