It's hard for me to guess what happened. Would you mind providing log file with --verbose flag set?
Jarcec On Mar 7, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Marcin Cylke wrote: > On 07/03/12 15:28, Jarek Jarcec Cecho wrote: >> I'm not sure whether it's connected to your problem, but sqoop is designed >> to firstly import data into HDFS to a temporary directory and than using >> hive command "LOAD DATA" move them to target location in HIVE warehouse >> directory. You seems to be importing data directly into default HIVE >> warehouse directory (--targer-dir /user/hive/warehouse/sample_rm2). I would >> firstly try to change --target-dir parameter to simple "--target-dir >> sample_rm2" (directory with this name will be created in your HDFS home >> directory) or any other HDFS path outside /user/hive/warehouse. > > This helped quite a lot I've again forgot about not writting into > hive warehouse directly. > > Now, when I execute it with --target-dir sample_rm , and not full path, > sqoop finishes execution. However Hive is not aware of this table. The > appropriate directory is in /user/hive/warehouse, but is not visible via > 'show tables' in hive shell, nor I can select any data from it. > > Is there an easy fix for that? > > Marcin >