Sqoop Complete Tutorial Part-5

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14) Read the contents of the database without importing it. 

sqoop list-tables
--connect jdbc:mysql://localhost/empdept
--username root
--password cloudera

This above command will list out the tables from the given database.

15) Get the list of of the databases using Sqoop

sqoop list-databases
--connect jdbc:mysql://localhost/
--username root
--password cloudera

With the above command, we completed learning how to import data from MySQL to HDFS using Sqoop. The upcoming articles are on how to import data from MySQL to Hive.

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