Sqoop import - Cannot resolve SQL type -151

[#1]

I am trying into ingest one table from MS SQL Server to hdfs through sqoop and I get following error. 

cause:java.io.IOException: Sqoop does not have the splitter for the given SQL data type. Please use either different split column (argument --split-by) or lower the number of mappers to 1. Unknown SQL data type: -151
19/10/30 12:42:37 ERROR tool.ImportTool: Import failed: java.io.IOException: Sqoop does not have the splitter for the given SQL data type. Please use either different split column (argument --split-by) or lower the number of mappers to 1. Unknown SQL data type: -151
at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.db.DataDrivenDBInputFormat.getSplits(DataDrivenDBInputFormat.java:194)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.writeNewSplits(JobSubmitter.java:305)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.writeSplits(JobSubmitter.java:322)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.submitJobInternal(JobSubmitter.java:200)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$10.run(Job.java:1307)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$10.run(Job.java:1304)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1917)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:1304)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.waitForCompletion(Job.java:1325)
at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.doSubmitJob(ImportJobBase.java:203)
at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.runJob(ImportJobBase.java:176)
at org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.ImportJobBase.runImport(ImportJobBase.java:273)
at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.importTable(SqlManager.java:692)
at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.importTable(ImportTool.java:513)
at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ImportTool.run(ImportTool.java:621)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.run(Sqoop.java:147)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runSqoop(Sqoop.java:183)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:234)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.runTool(Sqoop.java:243)
at org.apache.sqoop.Sqoop.main(Sqoop.java:252)

The sqoop command 

sqoop import --connect 'jdbc:sqlserver://<host>;database=<dbname>' --username "xxxxx" -P --driver com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver --table "<tablename>" --target-dir "/data/test/" --hive-import --hive-database <hiveschemaname> --hive-table <hivetablename> --map-column-hive report_date=String,start_time=String,stop_time=String --map-column-java report_date=String,start_time=String,stop_time=String --split-by report_date --as-parquetfile

I realised --split-by report_date attribute is causing this issue. The datatype for this column in SQL server table is datetime. I don't get this error When I run without --split-by attribute, but I am loosing parellelism. 

For some unknown reason, sqoop is not able resolve the datatype for this column(all columns in --map-column attribute is of datatime datatype and if I remove these two --map attributes I get the same error Unknown SQL data type: -151 for all these columns). 

The sqoop version is Sqoop 1.4.6-cdh5.12.1

Any idea about this error ? 

[#2]

I get this error in pyspark too.

[#3]

Hi,

Did you try using -m 1?

Does that work fine?

Regards

Nitish

[#4 · Accepted solution]

I replaced jdbc:sqlserver jar and used jtds jar. It worked !!

I figured out later that the sqlserver jar version and sqlserver engine version are not compatible. 

[#5]

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