How to access Metastore from beeline?

Question

I need to do some SQL queries (as here) directly from Metasore.
PS: the commands SHOW/DESCRIBE are not enough.

How to enable access from it as database, o

Answer 1

Spark-shell solution

Spark access Metastore under the hood, it have a first class metadata method, that returns a dataframe, the schema property, that expose names, types, etc. and offers getComment method.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/57857021/287948