--- title: How to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog | daily.dev description: Learn how to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog, a data governance platform that offers advanced security and governance features. Assess your existing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-upgrade-your-hive-tables-to-unity-catalog-s58q77gih twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog | daily.dev og:description: Learn how to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog, a data governance platform that offers advanced security and governance features. Assess your existing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-upgrade-your-hive-tables-to-unity-catalog-s58q77gih og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/S58Q77Gih.png og:image:alt: How to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog **[databricks](https://daily.dev/sources/databricks)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Learn how to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog, a data governance platform that offers advanced security and governance features. Assess your existing tables, create the required assets, follow the upgrade guidance, and provide grants to access the upgraded UC tables. Unity Catalog simplifies data access policies, provides standards-compliant security, offers built-in auditing and lineage, enables data discovery, and supports data sharing. Upgrading to Unity Catalog is essential to take advantage of new Databricks features. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#big-data](https://daily.dev/tags/big-data), [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#unity-catalog](https://daily.dev/tags/unity-catalog) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-upgrade-your-hive-tables-to-unity-catalog-s58q77gih) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-upgrade-your-hive-tables-to-unity-catalog-s58q77gih","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-upgrade-your-hive-tables-to-unity-catalog-s58q77gih"},"datePublished":"2023-11-02T13:20:36.392Z","dateModified":"2026-06-18T02:13:08.030Z","description":"Learn how to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog, a data governance platform that offers advanced security and governance features. Assess your existing...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ccaf404c39a9e9c1b1234c26ea26c34f?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ccaf404c39a9e9c1b1234c26ea26c34f?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"databricks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"databricks","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/fa7aa720f2db4d1eba826814730482c8","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/databricks"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-upgrade-your-hive-tables-to-unity-catalog-s58q77gih","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"big-data,security,unity-catalog","timeRequired":"PT11M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"databricks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/databricks"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog"}]} ```