Bootable Windows 7 x64 Install Flash Drive

Create a Bootable Windows 7 x64 Install Flash Drive from 32-bit Windows Creating a bootable Windows 7 x64 flash drive from within a 32-bit install of Windows is not as straight forward as it may seem. I recently had to go through this process myself, so I’ll document the steps below. Things you’ll need Windows 7 x64 disc image Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool 32-bit bootsect.exe Create the...

command line arguments to Pig scripts

Parameter Placeholder First, we need to create a place holder for the parameter that needs to be replaced inside the Pig script. Let’s say you have the following line in your Pig script where you are loading an input file. INPUT = LOAD '/data/input/20130326' In the above statement, if you want to replace date part dynamically, then have to create a placeholder for it. INPUT = LOAD '/data/input/$date' Individual...

Learn Apache Sqoop

Sqoop Learn Apache Sqoop Installation Apache Sqoop Tutorial Part 1 Apache Sqoop Tutorial Part 2 Apache Sqoop Tutorial Part 3 Apache Sqoop Tutorial Part 4 ...

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Microsoft Hadoop HDInsight ( Hadoop on Windows Azure)

Windows Azure HDInsight Service, formerly known as Hadoop on Windows Azure,  is now available inside the Windows Azure Preview portal.  Hadoop-based big data tools are what I call the WMD(P), or Weapons of Mass Data Processing. (You heard it here first!)  This...

Pig UDF : Eval

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Apache Pig : UDF

Apache Pig : Writing a User Defined Function (UDF) Apache Pig : Writing a User Defined Function (UDF) Preface: In this post we will write a basic/demo custom function for Apache Pig, called as UDF (User Defined Function). Pig’s Java UDF extends functionalities of EvalFunc. This abstract class have an abstract method “exec” which user needs to implement...