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Andrew Musselman commented on SQOOP-1332:
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Awesome, thanks. I was thinking it would be nice to be able to explore tables
in external databases using something like the "describe" keyword in Oracle,
MySQL, and Postgres, for examples.
E.g., http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14357/ch12019.htm
But on second thought it may be possible just to issue the describe clause in a
free-form SQL query already, closing this bug. I'll try it out unless you
already have Sqoop set up with a database running you can check against.
> Sqoop describe
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> Key: SQOOP-1332
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1332
> Project: Sqoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: tools
> Affects Versions: 1.4.4
> Reporter: Andrew Musselman
> Priority: Critical
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> Would be very helpful while exploring/preparing to pull external databases to
> have a "describe" command.
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