You can learn more about BCP here: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx</a> Sqoop - Tied to Microsoft???s latest announcements with Hadoop on Windows and Windows Azure, Sqoop is a tool that is used to move data between SQL Server 2008R2 (and higher) and Hadoop, quickly and efficiently.