issues with sqoop and hive - hive

Question

We are facing the following issues details as follows, please share your inputs.
1) Issue with --validate option in sqoop
if we run the sqoop command without creating a job for it, validate works. But if we create a job first, with validate option the validate doesn't seem to work.
works with
sqoop import --connect "DB connection" --username $USER --password-file $File_Path --warehouse-dir $TGT_DIR --as-textfile --fields-terminated by '|' --lines-teriminated-by '\n' --table emp_table -m 1 --outdir $HOME/javafiles --validate
Does not work with
sqoop job --create Job_import_emp import --connect "DB connection" --username $USER --password-file $File_Path --warehouse-dir $TGT_DIR --as-textfile --fields-terminated by '|' --lines-teriminated-by '\n' --table emp_table -m 1 --outdir $HOME/javafiles --validate
2) Issue with Hive import
If we are importing data for the first time in hive, it becomes imperative to create hive table ( hive internal), so we keep "--create-hive-table" in sqoop command.
Even thouhg if i keep "--create-hive-table" option, Is there any way to skip create table step in hive while importing, if the table is already exists.
Thanks
Sheik

Answer 1

Sqoop allows --validate option only for sqoop import and sqoop export commands.
From the official Sqoop User guide, the validation has these limitations,
all-tables option
free-form query option
Data imported into Hive or HBase table
import with --where argument
No, the table check cannot be skip if --create-hive-table option is set, the job will fail if the target table exists.