*Hi *
We are facing an issue with inserting emoticons into Mysql via sqoop import from Hive. Here is the full description of the problem. Please can we get some urgent help. *Error Message:* Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x9A\x97 \xF0...' for column 'Description' at row *Script:* nohup sqoop export -D mapreduce.job.queuename="******" --connect "jdbc:mysql://xxx.mysql.database.azure.com/xxx" --username 'mysqladmin@xxx-mysql-db10' --password '********' --table workorder_emojitest --hcatalog-database test_db -hcatalog-table workorder_test_1025 --input-fields-terminated-by , --driver com.mysql.jdbc.Driver >> /tmp/m.logs & *Options tried so far (none of them have worked)* *Option 1 – not successful* *A SerDe allows Hive to read in data from a table, and write it back out to HDFS in any custom format.* We have installed the serde jars and kepts in hive/lib location for emojis data support But it's not worked. and also we kept this serde jars in in Sqoop/lib but no luck. *Option 2 – not successful* In mySql server the emojis data types we are using var char with serde properties utf8mb4 In Hive server the emojis data types are strings with serde properties utf-8 Manually we are able to insert in my SQL server and hive server based on above properties. *Note*: In MySQL server serde properties which are using utf8mb4 is *4bytes* In hive server serde properties which are using utf8 is *3bytes* we have tried all the way to change utf8mb4 to utf8 in MySQL server but it was not supporting. and we changed UTF-8 properties to UFT-16 in hive server and checked but no luck. also we have modified every properties in sqoop export command and tried. jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8 default-character-set=utf8 character-set=utf8mb4 collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci *Option 3 – not successful* We also we tried all the possible ways on MySQL side and changed MySQL properties and restarted the server. character_set_server=utf8mb4 character_set_server=utf-8 character_set_connection utf-8 character-set results utf-8 Regards, Sudhinder