Hi Santosh, Sqoop is not supporting HIVE external tables at the moment. Feel free to file a JIRA [1] to add such support.
Jarcec Links: 1: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 07:52:17PM +0800, Santosh Achhra wrote: > Hello, > > Is creating external tables not supported in Sqoop ? When I execute sqoop > import command with --hiveimport option, by default a managed tables is > getting created, then I have to fire Alter command to change table > properties to change table to external table > > Good wishes,always ! > Santosh
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