I faced the same issue in a different case, a incremental import from oracle to a parquet file in hdfs. In my case, the issue ocurred when i specified the --table parameter. After some researches, i concluded that this issue is caused by the dot when i specified the "schema.table". In adition to mentioned above, you can use the paremeter --query instead the --table in your sqoop import. Eg: instead of: sqoop --import --connect jdbc:oracle:thin:@host:port/db --username user --P --table schema.table --split-by column --target-dir /some_hdfs_path/schema/table --incremental append --check-column ID --as-parquetfile --fields-terminated-by '|' i used: sqoop --import --connect jdbc:oracle:thin:@host:port/db --username user --P --query "SELECT * FROM schema.table WHERE \$CONDITIONS" --split-by column --target-dir /some_hdfs_path/schema/table --incremental append --check-column column --as-parquetfile --fields-terminated-by '|' the \$CONDITIONS is required by sqoop, without this you'll got another error. ... View more