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-- This is a Hive program. Hive is an SQL-like language that compiles
-- into Hadoop Map/Reduce jobs. It's very popular among analysts at
-- Facebook, because it allows them to query enormous Hadoop data
-- stores using a language much like SQL.

-- Our logs are stored on the Hadoop Distributed File System, in the
-- directory /logs/randomhacks.net/access.  They're ordinary Apache
-- logs in *.gz format.
--
-- We want to pretend that these gzipped log files are a database table,