https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/SQOOP-IMPORT-map-column-hive-ignored/m-p/45823#M45627 <P>Did you find a solution for this problem?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I am having the same issue. &nbsp;I've scoured the internet and I think In my case, --map-column-hive is not working with the --as-parquetfile command for some reason. &nbsp;I am not really sure why but I think that is the reason.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>A workaround that I am trying is to import the file regularly and create a table in hive using the file you imported and casting to timestamp there</P> Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:26:51 GMT AndrewLee586 2016-09-30T19:26:51Z