Hi, While looking into mysql import error that I was facing (which was actually my error), I came across following issue on jira - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-324 This is about using avro file(s) instead of plain-text file(s) as intermediate file while doing hive imports.
I can think about couple of scenarios where avro might help (but not very sure) - binary data in database columns, data containing delimiters used for field/line separators etc. Has anyone tried implementing this? Any particular case that is solved by using avro as intermediate format? Thanks, Siddharth
