Jon Morisi continues a series on Sqoop:
Sqoop completes the import task by running MapReduce jobs importing the data to HDFS, and then running Hive commands (CREATE TABLE / LOAD DATA INPATH) to move the data to Hive. The default HDFS location is: /user/[login]/[TABLENAME]. If you have any issues during the import you may need to remove the HDFS directory prior to re-running, or else you will get an Error:
Read on for sample calls and additional notes.