The issue seems to be a classloader problem. You can workaround the problem by changing squirrel's classpath to include the hadoop/hive jars (rather than adding it under the driver). I believe can do this on windows by editing the squirrel batch file that you use to start the client.
Patrick On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Raghunath, Ranjith <ranjith.raghuna...@usaa.com> wrote: > Thanks a bunch Patick and Bennie. The error is the one that you specified in > the jira HIVE-2163 however I am little confused on how I implement the work > around. The workaround seems to be for a linux box. Please let me know if I > am mistaken is saying this. Thanks. > > ________________________________________ > From: Patrick Hunt [ph...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:39 AM > To: user@hive.apache.org > Cc: Raghunath, Ranjith > Subject: Re: Hive connecting to squirrel on windows > > What's the error you get? > > Perhaps this one? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2163 > (seems to be a classpath issue w/workaround, give it a try) > > Patrick > > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Bennie Schut <bsc...@ebuddy.com> wrote: >> If its 0.7 and "IOException: The system cannot find the path specified" then >> you ran into HIVE-2054. It seems Carl backported it to 0.7.1 so try that. >> If it's something else please post the error. >> >> On 05/17/2011 04:56 AM, Raghunath, Ranjith wrote: >> >> I have followed the document outlining how to perform the connection listed >> in http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hive/HiveJDBCInterface. However, I keep >> getting a error when trying to connect. I would appreciate any input on >> this. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Ranjith >> >> >>