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Chris Teoh edited comment on SQOOP-816 at 4/14/17 2:52 PM:
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Added --external-table-dir option, its presence will cause external table to be 
created.
--external-table-dir - external table HDFS location

Patch updated for latest trunk codebase.

Review at https://reviews.apache.org/r/51912/



was (Author: chris.t...@gmail.com):
Added --as-external-table option when using --hive-import option, --target-dir 
option and --table-location option.

--as-external-table - makes the destination table external table
--table-location - external table HDFS location

> Scoop and support for external Hive tables
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SQOOP-816
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-816
>             Project: Sqoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: hive-integration
>            Reporter: Santosh Achhra
>            Assignee: Chris Teoh
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: External, Hive,, Scoop,, Tables, newbie
>
> Sqoop is not supporting HIVE external tables at the moment. Any imports using 
> scoop creates a managed table, in real world scenario it is very important to 
> have EXTERNAL tables. As of now we have to execute ALTER statement to change 
> table properties to make the the table as external table which is not a big 
> deal but it would nice have an option in scoop to specify type of table which 
> is required



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