Writing parquet file to hdfs for internal Hive table

[#1]

I'm trying to overwrite a parquet file in hdfs for a Hive table, but I noticed a bunch of individual parquet files with unique names like this, 

table_directory /part-00199-edf111ef-0f7a-43ab-9393-8fc620195d4c-c000.snappy.parquet

How do I add a parquet file to a Hive table directory that's composed of several parquet file?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Wilber My suggestion would be to not over write existing files, but write to staging location as external table.  Then merge staging location data into final internal hive table with INSERT INTO final_table SELECT * FROM staging_table;

[#3 · Accepted solution]

@Wilber My suggestion would be to not over write existing files, but write to staging location as external table.  Then merge staging location data into final internal hive table with INSERT INTO final_table SELECT * FROM staging_table;

[#4 · Accepted solution]

@stevenmatison  - perfect; works! Thank you.

[#5]

Please accept the solution as answer.  Doin this helps complete the solution.