https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Impala-table-definition/m-p/66678#M13692 Hi,<BR /><BR />1- yes you can do it, like I tell you.. create a external text table on Impala directly then create a parquet table and select from the text one.. (the converting will be done automatically..).<BR /><BR />2- I think you can.. try to search about parquet-tools.<BR /><BR />Good luck. Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:41:49 GMT AcharkiMed 2018-04-24T12:41:49Z