Showing the database name in Hive Prompt

Unlike in traditional RDBMS systems, it is difficult to know in which database we are currently working in Hive due to its command-line interface. It always shows the hive prompt.

However, there is a trick!

Set a property to print the current database as part of the prompt to know the database which you are currently in.

set hive.cli.print.current.db=true;