--- title: "How to upgrade your Hive tables to Unity Catalog" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-upgrade-your-hive-tables-to-unity-catalog-s58q77gih source_url: https://www.databricks.com/blog/migrating-tables-hive-metastore-unity-catalog-metastore type: article source: "databricks" published: 2023-11-02T13:20:36.392Z updated: 2026-06-18T02:13:08.030Z tags: ["big-data", "security", "unity-catalog"] reading_time: 11 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- 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)