Hi Shakun, please route technical questions about Sqoop to dev@sqoop.apache.org mailing list. All developers are signed up on that mailing list and you are far more likely to get answer to your question in much faster time :) Instructions how to join are at [1].
SequenceFile always contains key-value pairs - that is how the format is defined. However this doesn’t suite Sqoop as we consider entire row as “key” and hence we’re not using the “value” field - and that is the null that you’re observing. Jarcec Links: 1: http://sqoop.apache.org/mail-lists.html On Sep 22, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Shakun Sachdeva <s28sw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jarcec, > > Hope you are doing good!! > > I am coming across an issue i.e. when I do Sqoop2 Import and choose the > output format as Sequence File , then it appends a (null) with the original > value > > e.g. > I transfer 'names' from a table to sqoop which has "Tom" as a name > The output file that got created is a sequence file. When I do > > hadoop fs -text /tmp/Seq1/part-m-00001.seq > > it gave me the following output: > > 'Tom' (null) > > Can you please tell me why it is appending null with the output? > > Your help will be highly appreciated. > Thanks in advance!! > > Regards, > Shakun
