We actually tried very hard to remain compatible with this particular 
connector, so please feel free to create new JIRA for each issue you will find.

Jarcec

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 06:01:19PM +0000, Artem Ervits wrote:
> Thank you Jarek,
> 
> I will do what you indicated, however, since we're using Microsoft connector 
> for SQL, I am not sure that supports any version but 1.3.0. I will test 
> though.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarek Jarcec Cecho [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 1:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SQOOP 1.3.0 questions using SQL Server
> 
> Hi Artem,
> Sqoop 1.3.0 is very old release, so I would definitely recommend to upgrade 
> to latest 1.4.2. Please note that this release include SQOOP-480[1] that 
> fixes some issues for connectors compiled against 1.3 in 1.4. Sqoop is simple 
> command line utility so you might try to download release into some temporary 
> folder and verify that everything is working prior upgrading Sqoop system 
> wise.
> 
> Specifically to your questions
> 
> 1) --incremental
> Usually Sqoop will print out error message first followed by help page, so I 
> would advise checking few initial lines to see what exactly is wrong.
> 
> 2) --compress
> Please try to reproduce this issue on 1.4.2 and file jira if you'll be able 
> to reproduce it.
> 
> 3) --as-avrodatafile
> Based on [2] SQL type -9 corresponds to data type NVARCHAR. We've added 
> support for NVARCHAR in SQOOP-323 [3] that is part of Sqoop since version 
> 1.4.0-incubating - e.g. 1.3.0 version do not support NVARCHAR type out of the 
> box.
> 
> Jarcec
> 
> Links:
> 1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-480
> 2: 
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/constant-values.html#java.sql.Types.DECIMAL
> 3: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-323
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:29:41PM +0000, Artem Ervits wrote:
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm testing a few switches for Sqoop import and I'm having the following 
> > problems.
> > 
> > When I use the -incremental switch, the command fails and shows me the help 
> > page.
> > When I use the -compress switch, the command works but when I try to 
> > uncompress the results, it says gzip undefined compression code. I also 
> > tried to explicitly state the codec and it would still not append the 
> > compression extension to the files nor am I able to uncompress the data.
> > When I use the -as-avrodatafile I get ERROR tool.ImportTool: Imported 
> > Failed: Cannot convert SQL type -9
> > 
> > Any ideas? I am not sure if upgrading Sqoop will fix it because SQL Server 
> > connector specifically required a 1.3.0 release.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Artem Ervits
> > Data Analyst
> > New York Presbyterian Hospital
> > 
> > 
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