Could not load db driver class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver Sqoop

While working with Sqoop i got this error

java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not load db driver class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

Solution

MySQL jar is missing , download MySQL java connector jar and save it into sqoop/lib folder

You can download it from http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/

More details at Solution post
https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/sqoop-user/browse_thread/thread/a7075a8557c00007?pli=1

The MySQL JDBC Driver was removed from Sqoop distribution in order to ensure that the default distribution is fully Apache license compliant.