Month: <span>November 2015</span>

Month: November 2015

Unable to import Oracle table with CLOB column into HDFS using Sqoop

If you encountered the following error while importing Oracle table into HDFS: Chances are that you are hitting a Sqoop bug: SQOOP-117 At the time of writing, it is not fixed yet, but we can have a very simple workaround for this issue. Simply use –map-column-java option supported by Sqoop, …

Hive query failed with error: Killing the Job. mapResourceReqt: 1638 maxContainerCapability:1200″

This article explains how to fix the following error when running a hive query: This error might not be obvious, however, this is caused by the following config not setup properly in YARN: mapreduce.map.memory.mb = 1638 yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb = 1200 yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb = 1300 The solution here is to change the above …

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