I was able to reproduce this issue and it looks like a jar version mismatch for parquet on sandbox. Is there a reason for using parquet instead of ORC here? While both are supported on hive, ORC has advantages when using with hive since some of the stinger initiative improvements to hive take advantage of ORC. Here is an example of using ORC from sqoop. sqoop import --connect "jdbc:sqlserver://<ServerName>:<PortNo>;database=<DatabaseName>" --username <UserName> --password <Password> --table <TableName> --columns "COLUMN1, COLUMN2" --where "COLUMN1 = 7390" --hcatalog-database default --hcatalog-table my_table_orc --create-hcatalog-table --hcatalog-storage-stanza "stored as orcfile" ... View more