While I’m a big fan of CDH5 and Hue – sometimes I will see some funkiness that’s a tad irritating.  Specifically, there is a database with a name similar to cloudera_manager_metastore_canary_test_db_hive_hivemetastore_$guid$_2014_10_06_11_20_41 Even more irritating there is a table called cm_test_table which cannot be deleted (or renamed or even described). hive> describe cm_test_table; FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10001]: Table not found cm_test_table hive> alter table cm_test_table RENAME to cm_test_table2; FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10001]: Table not found cm_test_table hive> drop table cm_test_table; FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10001]: Table not found cm_test_table To work around this problem, its a matter of using the CASCADE reference to…