Sometimes data produced by Sqoop Import may contain New Line Character. This may result failure to correctly read the data. To resolve same follow either of below solution: Specify following options with Sqoop: --map-column-java <Column name that contains New Line>=String --hive-drop-import-delims Or, Update Sqoop SQL and select the column with regex replacement, like: regexp_replace(<Column name that contains New Line>, '[[:space:]]+', ' ')