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Patrick Wilttrout commented on SQOOP-1313: ------------------------------------------ bump > Provide an option to TRUNCATE tables before exporting > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SQOOP-1313 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-1313 > Project: Sqoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 1.4.4 > Reporter: Lars Francke > Priority: Minor > > It'd be great to have an option to TRUNCATE tables before exporting data to > them. > There were a couple of mailing list posts about this feature already[1]. > Sometimes the data has to be replaced completely and having the option of > Sqoop taking care of clearing the data first would be convenient. Currently > we need to run a custom java action first that does the truncating. > [1] One example: > <http://grokbase.com/t/sqoop/user/13a23b7765/truncate-before-import-export> -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)