Interview Tips

Tips for before, during and after an interview Before the Interview Practice, practice, practice. It’s one of the best ways to get more confident and comfortable interviewing. A few tips for practising: Try to turn off your inner critic and answer as authentically as possible. Review your answers from the perspective of an interviewer. Which parts of your answer capture the things you’d want an interviewer to know about you? Which parts feel less relevant?...

January 7, 2015 · 6 min · 1149 words · Eric

Conversation Topic

Shallow Topic Art Traditional Festival Folklore Custom Food Language Literature In-depth Topic Family Role Belief and Assumptions Core Values Relationship with Authority Self Concept Polite Manners Preconception Body Language Understanding about Beauty Ways of Explaining Understanding of Cleanliness Attitude Towards School Family Values Gender Role Code of Conduct Pride Interpretation of Justice Understanding of Humility Attitude towards to Environment Competition Ways of Raising Children Professional Ethics Ways of Thinking Attitude, Posture Personal Space Aesthetics

June 9, 2014 · 1 min · 74 words · Eric

Learning Sqoop By Practice V - Sqoop Job

Sqoop Job 1. create a sqoop job that import a MySQL table to HDFS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 sqoop job \ --create sqoop_import_products \ -- import \ --connect "jdbc:mysql://quickstart:3306/retail_db" \ --username retail_dba \ --password cloudera \ --table products \ --target-dir "/cca175/ps27/products/" \ --fields-terminated-by "|" \ --lines-terminated-by "\n" \ -m 5 NOTE: there is a blank before the import keyword in -- import. --import (no blank before import) will not work!...

March 7, 2014 · 1 min · 77 words · Eric

Learning Sqoop By Practice IV - Sqoop Export

Previously we talked about sqoop import, now in this article, we will continue on the journey with sqoop export. Sqoop Export Common Scenarios 1. export a Hive table to MySQL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sqoop export \ --connect "jdbc:mysql://quickstart:3306/retail_db" \ --username retail_dba \ --password cloudera \ --table products_export \ --export-dir "/user/hive/warehouse/cca175/ps19/products_export" \ --batch NOTE: The --table and --export-dir variables are required for sqoop export. These specify the table to populate in the database, and the directory in HDFS that contains the source data....

March 6, 2014 · 2 min · 375 words · Eric

Learning Sqoop By Practice III - Sqoop Import

Sqoop Import Common Scenarios 1. import a table to HDFS 1 2 3 4 5 6 sqoop import \ --connect "jdbc:mysql://quickstart:3306/retail_db" \ --username retail_dba \ --password cloudera \ --table products \ -m 1 NOTE: --connect, --username, --password are database connection variables for connecting to target RDBMS. In this case, we use MySQL as our data source. --table is the specific table that we want to import to HDFS -m 1, or --num-mappers 1 is the parameters of map tasks to use to perform....

March 5, 2014 · 6 min · 1182 words · Eric