Hi, See this
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/trunk/conf/hive-default.xml.template There is one property , if you set that to true it would show. <property> <name>hive.cli.print.header</name> <value>false</value> <description>Whether to print the names of the columns in query output.</description> </property> Thanks, Jagat Singh On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Sai Sai <saigr...@yahoo.in> wrote: > When we run a query in hive like: > > Select * from myTable limit 10; > > We get the results successfully but the column names r not displayed. > Is it possible to display the column names also so the data and the > columns can be related right away without running a describe table. > > Thanks, > Sai >