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Sqoop example to pull data from mysql



Example1:
sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql:<localhost>/<databasename> --username=<username> --password-file <password file location> -table <tablename> -m 1 --compression-codec=snappy --as-avrodatafile --warehouse-dir=<hdfs location for creating datafiles>

Example 2:
sqoop import --connect jdbc:mysql:<localhost>/<databasename> --username=<username> --password=<password> -table <tablename> -m 1 --compression-codec=snappy --as-avrodatafile --warehouse-dir=<hdfs location for creating datafiles>

We can use this flag to overwrite the data pulled
--hive-overwrite flag

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