How to connect Relational Database using Sqoop

Question

I want to connect Relational Database using sqoop? How do I do that? Can someone suggest something?

Answer 1

Hi,

You can use the command below to connect to a relational database with Sqoop, i.e:

--connect

For Example, below the code connects to a MySQL database:

sqoop --connect jdbc:mysql://myhostname/interviewgrid 
--username myusername --password mypassword