https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/sqoop-import-writes-NULL-when-reading-Null-values-from/m-p/207376#M169337 <P>Hi Simon, you can try some of the import control options, you can find them here - <A href="https://sqoop.apache.org/docs/1.4.3/SqoopUserGuide.html" target="_blank">https://sqoop.apache.org/docs/1.4.3/SqoopUserGuide.html</A> - i.e - The <CODE>--null-string</CODE> and <CODE>--null-non-string</CODE> arguments are optional.\ If not specified, then the string "null" will be used.</P> Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:11:45 GMT dconnolly 2017-06-13T19:11:45Z