https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-use-spark-to-load-data-into-a-Hive-partition/m-p/56022#M49230 Your case class must include it so that it maps to the DF correctly.<BR /><BR />The error is because it is now looking for the location columns in the DF and it doesn't exist. Make the change to your class and DF; then it should be good. Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:14:50 GMT mbigelow 2017-06-16T17:14:50Z