Using query operator in Sqoop import

In previous examples, we saw how we import/export complete table. Sometimes you may want to only use selective data, so to achieve this, Sqoop provides a query operation in which we can write SQL query as we need to import data into HDFS.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a Hadoop cluster running with you as well as the latest version of Sqoop installed on it. Here I am using Sqoop 1.4.6. We would also need a MySQL database to be present in the network. Installing Sqoop is easy by downloading Sqoop tar ball and setting it in system path. As we are going to import data from MySQL, we would also need to download MySQL connector. Based on your MySQL version, download the right connector jar and ...

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