[MAPREDUCE-674] Sqoop should allow a "where" clause to avoid having to export entire tables

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Kevin Weil
• Reporter: Kevin Weil
• Created: 27/Jun/09 23:20
• Updated: 02/Jul/10 06:31
• Resolved: 07/Jul/09 12:13

Description

Sqoop currently only exports at the granularity of a table. This doesn't work well on systems with large tables, where the overhead of performing a full dump each time is significant. Allowing the user to specify a where clause is a relatively simple task which will give Sqoop a lot more flexibility.