I am facing an error for the below code   sqoop import --driver com.mysql.jdbc.Driver --connect jdbc:mysql://IP:3306/employees --table emp --username abc -P --target-dir /sqoopOut1 -m 1   ERROR: ============================================================= ERROR manager.CatalogQueryManager: Failed to list databases com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:386) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1015) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:989) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:975) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:920) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2568) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2304) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:834) at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:47) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:416) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:346) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.makeConnection(SqlManager.java:904) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listDatabases(CatalogQueryManager.java:57) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ListDatabasesTool.run(ListDatabasesTool.java:49) 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) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getServerCharacterEncoding(ConnectionImpl.java:3279) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendConnectionAttributes(MysqlIO.java:1940) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.proceedHandshakeWithPluggableAuthentication(MysqlIO.java:1866) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:1252) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.coreConnect(ConnectionImpl.java:2486) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2519) ... 22 more 21/02/19 06:17:26 ERROR sqoop.Sqoop: Got exception running Sqoop: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. java.lang.RuntimeException: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listDatabases(CatalogQueryManager.java:73) at org.apache.sqoop.tool.ListDatabasesTool.run(ListDatabasesTool.java:49) 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) Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:386) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1015) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:989) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:975) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:920) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2568) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2304) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:834) at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:47) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:416) at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:346) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.SqlManager.makeConnection(SqlManager.java:904) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.GenericJdbcManager.getConnection(GenericJdbcManager.java:52) at org.apache.sqoop.manager.CatalogQueryManager.listDatabases(CatalogQueryManager.java:57) ... 7 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getServerCharacterEncoding(ConnectionImpl.java:3279) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendConnectionAttributes(MysqlIO.java:1940) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.proceedHandshakeWithPluggableAuthentication(MysqlIO.java:1866) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:1252) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.coreConnect(ConnectionImpl.java:2486) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2519) ... 22 more   ... 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