Hi Jarcec, Thanks for your suggestion, I take this one.
Thanks, Varun ________________________________ From: Jarek Jarcec Cecho <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; VKing Gorri <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Capture record cound using sqoop eval Hi VKing, Sqoop is highly optimized tool for transferring data between relational databases and Hadoop ecosystem. It's not a general purpose querying tool. The tool "eval" stands for "evaluation" and should be used only for validating the connection status using simple queries. It should not be used in production workflows. I would suggest to use mysql utility itself for this purpose. Jarcec On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 05:00:57PM -0700, VKing Gorri wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to store record count of a MySQL table in a variable using sqoop > eval. How could I suppress the formatting from the QueryResult and just get > count so that I could export the value to a variable? Please suggest. > > sqoop eval --connect <> --username <>--password <> --query "select count(1) > from table_nm" > ------------------------ > | count(1) | > ------------------------ > | 3768 | > ------------------------ > > Thanks!
