https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/upgrade-hive-schema-failed/m-p/51215#M5923 I have seen this error on the HDP side. I had created the databases with utf8 charset and the scripts did not like that. On CDH I still use charset utf8.<BR /><BR />It seems that you have MySQL and charset utf8 is in use.<BR /><BR />My fix was to change them to latin1 but I was working with fresh databases and a fresh install. Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:20:58 GMT mbigelow 2017-02-21T08:20:58Z