I have 1000 tables with more than 100000 records in each table in mysql. The tables have 300-500 columns. Some of tables have columns with special characters like .(dot) and space in the column names. Now I want to do sqoop import and create a hive table in HDFS in a single shot query like below as textfile   sqoop import --connect ${domain}:${port}/$(database) --username ${username} --password ${password}\ --table $(table) -m 1 --hive-import --hive-database ${hivedatabase} --hive-table $(table) --create-hive-table\ --target-dir /user/hive/warehouse/${hivedatabase}.db/$(table)   After this the hive table is created but when I do select * query on the table it shows error as   This error output is a sample output.   Error while compiling statement: FAILED: RuntimeException java.lang.RuntimeException: cannot find field emp from [0:emp.id, 1:emp.name, 2:emp.salary, 3:emp.dno]   However when I do the import as parquet file the table is created and when I do select query the query gives me expected results. Even the .(dot) are replaced with _(underscore) automatically   Why is this happening? ... View more