In this post, I want to point out that HDInsight (Hadoop on Windows) comes with a sample datasets (log files) that you can load using the command:

1. Hadoop command Line > Navigate to c:HadoopGettingStarted

2. Execute the following command:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted –F importdata.ps1 w3c

After you have successfully executed the command, you can sample files in /w3c/input folder:

Conclusion: In this post, we saw how to load some data to Hadoop on Windows file system to get started. Your comments are very welcome.

Official Resource: http://gettingstarted.hadooponazure.com/loadingData.html

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