SQOOP SQLSERVER Failed to load driver “ appropriate connection manager is not being set”

Question

I downloaded sqljdbc4.jar. I\'m invoking sqoop like so from the folder (where the jar is stored):

sqoop list-tables --driver com.microso

Answer 1

Recently came across this same problem. Even though documentation says that it will pick up additional jar files. The problem is I believe propagated from Hadoop jar command line option. -libjars is not reliable option to set additional jar file path. Instead, choose HADOOP_CLASSPATH option to setup additional jar files.

In my case, I had multiple different versions of driver JAR, but using -libjars was not correctly picking up file for me.

To resolve this, I specified

export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=/$SQOOP_HOME/.jar

This makes sure that correct JAR file gets loaded.