This is the result of work done with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3554 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5795 that enable easy traversal of subdirectories, and exclusion of header rows. This makes Hive a turnkey way to query any type of log data partitioned by time series, without having to explicitly program the parti…

gistfile1.sql

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE websites_logs_raw (datereq STRING, 
timereq STRING, 
s_sitename STRING, 
cs_method  STRING, 
cs_uri_stem  STRING, 
cs_uri_query  STRING, 
s_port  STRING, 
cs_username  STRING, 
c_ip  STRING, 
cs_User_Agent STRING, 
cs_Cookie  STRING, 
cs_Referer STRING, 
cs_host  STRING, 
sc_status  INT, 
sc_substatus STRING, 
sc_win32_status  STRING, 
sc_bytes  INT, 
cs_bytes  INT, 
time_taken INT 
)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ' '
STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION 'wasb://container@storageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/path_to_logs'
tblproperties ("skip.header.line.count"="1");

set mapred.input.dir.recursive=true;
set hive.mapred.supports.subdirectories=true;

select cs_Referer, count(*) as totalCount, avg(time_taken) as averageTime,  sum(sc_bytes) as totalBytes
from websites_logs_raw
where sc_status =200
group by cs_Referer
order by totalCount DESC
limit 25;