Re: [sqoop-user] General question on Sqoop behavior

["arvind@cloudera.com" <ar...@cloudera.com>]

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Sqoop uses mysqlimport/mysqldump utilities only if you specify the
--direct option on the command line. If you do not specify this
option, Sqoop will use the regular MySQLManager which internally
relies only on JDBC for access.

Thanks,
Arvind

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Joey Krabacher <jk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Sqoop use mysqldump as well as the JDBC connector?
> That's what it looks like it's doing, but I have never seen an example
> of that.
>
> The reason I am asking is that I have two MySQL instances installed on
> remote windows machines.
> I can access them via JDBC connector and I want to avoid trying to get
> SSH setup to run Runtime.getRuntime().exec().
>
> I would love to run something on one machine that can access both
> instances.
>
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