Ability to query Hive version through JDBC/ODBC

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For products able to connect to a customer's Hadoop/Hive cluster, knowing the Hive version is crucial. Various Hive capabilities, such as supported data types and table/column name characters is governed by the Hive version. The Apache JDBC driver allows execution of e.g. the "set -v" Hive command as a standard query, returning a result set with key/value pairs. The Hortonworks ODBC driver provides a pseudo-table from which the "set -v" key/value pairs can be queried using a standard select statement. The Data Direct drivers should provide something similar.

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