Incremental import using Sqoop
In an enterprise world, the data gets increased every single day, hour, minute, and second. It's important to import data in an incremental way to do our analysis on up-to-date data. In this recipe, we are going to learn how to import data incrementally.
Getting ready
To perform this recipe, you should have a Hadoop cluster running with you as well as the latest version of Sqoop installed on it. Here I am using Sqoop 1.4.6. We would also need a MySQL database to be present in the network. Installing Sqoop is easy by downloading Sqoop tar ball and setting it in the system path. As we are going to import data from MySQL, we would also need to download MySQL connector. Based on your MySQL version, download the right connector ...
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