[Moving the thread to sqoop-user@incubator.apache.org] Hi Chalcy,
I would suggest you download the latest sources from Sqoop SVN by doing: svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sqoop/trunk/ sqoop Instructions on how to build the code are available in COMPILING.txt file located at the top level directory. Thanks, Arvind On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Chalcy Raja <chalcy.r...@careerbuilder.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am trying to import sqlserver table in to hive table using sqoop. The > import failed on nvarchar field. There is a patch released as per > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-323?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Aall-tabpanel#issue-tabs. > > > > How do I apply this patch to the existing sqoop? > > > > Thank you, > > Chalcy > > > > The error I am getting is, > > > > Hive does not support the SQL type for column xxxxxxxx -- the column is > nvarchar > > at > com.cloudera.sqoop.hive.TableDefWriter.getCreateTableStmt(TableDefWriter.java:150) > > at > com.cloudera.sqoop.hive.HiveImport.importTable(HiveImport.java:187) > > at > com.cloudera.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:362) > > at com.cloudera.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:423) > > at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:144) > > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) > > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79) > > at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:180) > > at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:218) > > at com.cloudera.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:228) > >
