> tez.queue.name via the --hiveconf switch on beeline and it doesn't look >to me it works. the question is... should it?
Nope, it shouldn't, because of Tez sessions the conf param is not job. The tez.queue.name can be changed while a JDBC connection is up, so it is not picked up from the conf & instead is acted upon when a user sends a set command (i.e kill old session, start new session in the new queue). > -u "jdbc:hive2://dwrdevnn1.sv2.trulia.com:10001/default This is what I do, might need adapting to the noSASL. beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default?tez.queue.name=adhoc" -n gopalv --color=true --outputformat=tsv2 Cheers, Gopal