Hi All,

I'm trying to do an Incremental Import using Sqoop from Teradata to Hive tables.

I'm using:
-Apache Hadoop 2.4.0
-Apache Hive 0.13.1
-Apache Sqoop 1.4.4
-hdp-connector-for-teradata-1.3.2.2.1.5.0-695-distro
-Teradata 15.0.0.8

>From Sqoop documentation:
An alternate table update strategy supported by Sqoop is called lastmodified 
mode. You should use this when rows of the source table may be updated, and 
each such update will set the value of a last-modified column to the current 
timestamp. Rows where the check column holds a timestamp more recent than the 
timestamp specified with -last-value are imported.

I followed the below steps:

STEP 1: One time activity
I'm doing a full import of the table to hive table.

STEP 2: One time activity
Created a Sqoob Job for incremental import
sqoop job -create incr1 - import -connection-manager 
org.apache.sqoop.teradata.TeradataConnManager -connect 
jdbc:teradata://192.168.199.137/testdb123 -username testdb123 -password 
testdb123 -table Paper_STAGE -incremental lastmodified -check-column 
last_modified_col -last-value "2014-10-03 15:29:48.66? -split-by id -hive-table 
paper_stage -hive-import

STEP 3: This will be done on timely basis from any Scheduler OR Oozie
Executing the Sqoob Job for incremental import everytime I need the updated 
rows/newly added rows.
sqoop job -exec incr1

The source table has a "unique primary key" and "last modified column" with 
current timestamp.
The newly added rows though are working fine and getting imported but for the 
updated rows I'm getting duplicate rows.
Sqoop is not updating the updated rows but adding a new one with same Id and 
new current timestamp.

Is this something which is currently not supported in Sqoop as of now ?
This is since I found these:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19093417/sqoop-import-lastmodified-gives-duplicate-records-it-doesnt-merger
http://grokbase.com/p/cloudera/cdh-user/13a4n03jrh/sqoop-import-lastmodified-gives-duplicate-records-merger-does-not-happen
https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/forum/#!topic/cdh-user/xAbXEduvahU
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/DISTRO-464

Is there a way to avoid the duplicate rows for the updated rows and get a 
merged updated row for each updated row in the Source table?
Kindly advise me any alternatives to handle this.

Thanks,
-Nirmal

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