Do not specify driver in sqoop arguments. Using the –driver parameter will always force Sqoop to use the Generic JDBC Connector regardless of if a more specialized connector is available. For example, if the MySQL specialized connector would be used because the URL starts with jdbc:mysql://, specifying the –driver option will force Sqoop to use the generic connector instead. As a result, in most cases, you should not need to use the –driver option at all.     Thanks, Ankit Gaurav Sinha ... View more