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Hari Sekhon commented on SQOOP-1293:
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Yes the staging and then moving under warehouse is as I thought, thanks for
confirming that.
I think it would be an improvement to make those switches respected in terms of
retaining the data in the desired location, basically just skipping the move
under warehouse action, or make the behaviour clearer with warnings that those
switches won't be respected.
Can you please clarify that last statement, I did an import via HCatalog using
the switches
{noformat}--hcatalog-create-table --hcatalog-table counterparty{noformat}
but the result is pretty much the same, fully managed hive table inside
warehouse dir, except for some reason it generated the files as RCfiles, which
was not intended.
How about adding an --hive-external-table option to skip the table move under
warehouse after import and mark the table external?
That switch could enable a behaviour to allow the switches for directory and
delete to be respected.
Right now I've gone back to a sqoop import for data and then a separate sqoop
create-hive-table for the metadata and then an alter table on the location
metadata location property which is what we used to do at my last company.
Thanks
Hari
> --hive-import causes --target-dir and --warehouse-dir to not be respected,
> nor --delete-target-dir
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>
> Key: SQOOP-1293
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1293
> Project: Sqoop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: connectors/sqlserver, hive-integration
> Affects Versions: 1.4.4
> Environment: Hortonworks Sandbox 2.0
> Reporter: Hari Sekhon
>
> Hi,
> I'm importing a table from SQL Server 2012 and am using --hive-import to
> create the metadata automatically, but am finding that it causes --target-dir
> and --warehouse-dir to not be respected, nor --delete-target-dir.
> sqoop import --connect "jdbc:sqlserver://x.x.x.x:1533;database=MyDatabase"
> --username omitted --password omitted --driver
> com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver --table "cube.DimCounterParty"
> --split-by CounterpartyKey --hive-import --target-dir
> /MyDatabase/CounterParty --delete-target-dir
> (fyi I'm using --driver to work around bug SQOOP-1292)
> So I tried --warehouse-dir in case it needed that instead of --target-dir
> sqoop import --connect "jdbc:sqlserver://x.x.x.x:1533;database=MyDatabase"
> --username omitted --password omitted --driver
> com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver --table "cube.DimCounterParty"
> --split-by CounterpartyKey --hive-import --warehouse-dir
> /MyDatabase/CounterParty --delete-target-dir
> but in both cases it ingested the data to
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty.
> What's also strange is that it created the directory specified for
> --warehouse-dir but then didn't appear to place the data in it.
> I wanted to use --delete-target-dir to replace the whole table each time for
> this test since the source table is only ~650,000 rows and 185MB.
> What I've found is that on top of ingesting in to
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty by disregarding
> --delete-target-dir it is causing the table volume to grow cumulatively for
> each run, such that after a few runs the {noformat}select count(*){noformat}
> on the table now shows 5,546,661 rows instead of 650,000.
> Here is the the hive warehouse directory on HDFS where you can see the
> accumulation of the data:
> {noformat}
> hadoop fs -ls /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/
> Found 40 items
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 0 2014-03-07 08:44
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/_SUCCESS
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 0 2014-03-07 09:10
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/_SUCCESS_copy_1
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 0 2014-03-07 09:33
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/_SUCCESS_copy_2
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 0 2014-03-07 09:37
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/_SUCCESS_copy_3
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 0 2014-03-07 09:42
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/_SUCCESS_copy_4
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 0 2014-03-07 10:04
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/_SUCCESS_copy_5
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 0 2014-03-07 10:14
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/_SUCCESS_copy_6
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 0 2014-03-07 10:16
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/_SUCCESS_copy_7
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 49044407 2014-03-07 08:44
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00000
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 49045389 2014-03-07 09:10
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00000_copy_1
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 49045944 2014-03-07 09:33
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00000_copy_2
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 49045944 2014-03-07 09:37
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00000_copy_3
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 49045944 2014-03-07 09:41
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00000_copy_4
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 49045944 2014-03-07 10:04
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00000_copy_5
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 49045944 2014-03-07 10:14
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00000_copy_6
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 49045944 2014-03-07 10:15
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00000_copy_7
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 52363518 2014-03-07 08:44
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00001
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 52363912 2014-03-07 09:10
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00001_copy_1
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 52364256 2014-03-07 09:33
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00001_copy_2
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 52364256 2014-03-07 09:37
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00001_copy_3
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 52364256 2014-03-07 09:41
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00001_copy_4
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 52364256 2014-03-07 10:03
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00001_copy_5
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 52364256 2014-03-07 10:14
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00001_copy_6
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 52364256 2014-03-07 10:15
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00001_copy_7
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 51796051 2014-03-07 08:44
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00002
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 51796027 2014-03-07 09:10
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00002_copy_1
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 51796623 2014-03-07 09:33
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00002_copy_2
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 51796623 2014-03-07 09:37
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00002_copy_3
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 51796623 2014-03-07 09:41
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00002_copy_4
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 51796623 2014-03-07 10:03
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00002_copy_5
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 51796623 2014-03-07 10:14
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00002_copy_6
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 51796623 2014-03-07 10:15
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00002_copy_7
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 45445570 2014-03-07 08:44
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00003
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 45445544 2014-03-07 09:10
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00003_copy_1
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 45445719 2014-03-07 09:33
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00003_copy_2
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 45445719 2014-03-07 09:37
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00003_copy_3
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 45445719 2014-03-07 09:42
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00003_copy_4
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 45445719 2014-03-07 10:04
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00003_copy_5
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 45445719 2014-03-07 10:14
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00003_copy_6
> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hdfs 45445719 2014-03-07 10:16
> /apps/hive/warehouse/cube.db/dimcounterparty/part-m-00003_copy_7
> {noformat}
> Is this a bug that it doesn't respect --target-dir or at least
> --warehouse-dir?
> This highlights another issue that this should be more intuitive and/or
> {noformat}sqoop import --help{noformat} should make it easier to see what
> options are (not) compatible, or it should specify in the output at job
> initiation time where switches will be disregarded, such as it does when
> using {noformat}--hive-<option>{noformat} without
> {noformat}--hive-import{noformat}
> In my last place I recall using sqoop create-hive-table to generate the
> metadata after import and then editing the table location metadata. It would
> be a lot better if we could fix the behaviour of --hive-import to not require
> such a multi-step workaround.
> Thanks
> Hari Sekhon
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon
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