Hi,
I'm following this tutorial on using CQL with 0.8:
http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/api/using_cql
There is a typo in the "Inserting and Retrieving Columns" section. The trailing ) shouldn't be there:
cqlsh> INSERT INTO users (KEY, password) VALUES ('jsmith', 'ch@ngem3a');)
The tutorial overall was very helpful with getting started. Thanks!