[MAPREDUCE-1341] Sqoop should have an option to create hive tables and skip the table import step

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.22.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Leonid Furman
• Reporter: Leonid Furman
• Created: 29/Dec/09 01:50
• Updated: 02/Jul/10 06:31
• Resolved: 12/Feb/10 05:16

Description

In case the client only needs to create tables in hive, it would be helpful if Sqoop had an optional parameter:

--hive-create-only

which would omit the time consuming table import step, generate hive create table statements and run them.

If this feature seems useful, I can generate the patch. I have modified the Sqoop code and built it on my development machine, and it seems to be working well.