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Sqoop command to import data from mysql database to HDFS

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  • User AvatarKiran Dalvi
  • 06 Jun, 2019
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Sqoop command to import data from mysql database to HDFS

Step 1. Login to Mysql database.

cloudera@cloudera-vm:~$ mysql -uroot -p

Enter password:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.

Your MySQL connection id is 54

Server version: 5.1.61-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 (Ubuntu)

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owners.

Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement.

Step 2. Check the database name ,table name and data from table.

mysql> show databases;

+——————–+

| Database |

+——————–+

| information_schema |

| mysql |

| test |

+——————–+

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> use test;

Reading table information for completion of table and column names

You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed

mysql> show tables;

+—————-+

| Tables_in_test |

+—————-+

| employee |

+—————-+

1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

mysql>

mysql>

mysql> select * from employee;

+——-+——-+——–+

| empid | ename | salary |

+——-+——-+——–+

| 2 | Smith | 200 |

| 3 | Kathy | 5600 |

| 1 | John | 5000 |

+——-+——-+——–+

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Step 4. Fire the Sqoop command to import Mysql table data to HDFS.

cloudera@cloudera-vm:~$ sqoop import –connect jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/test –username root –password tiger –table employee –m 1 –target-dir /user/cloudera/emp

Step 5. Crosscheck the output by going to HDFS level.

cloudera@cloudera-vm:~$ hadoop fs -ls /user/cloudera/emp

Found 3 items

-rw-r–r– 1 cloudera supergroup 0 2019-01-21 07:26 /user/cloudera/em p/_SUCCESS

drwxr-xr-x – cloudera supergroup 0 2019-01-21 07:26 /user/cloudera/em p/_logs

-rw-r–r– 1 cloudera supergroup 37 2019-01-21 07:26 /user/cloudera/em p/part-m-00000

cloudera@cloudera-vm:~$ hadoop fs -cat /user/cloudera/emp/part-m-00000

2,Smith,200

3,Kathy,5600

1,John,5000