Hello @Shane B! Thanks for the words, but you know, I'm just a humble guy trying to help here, but I appreciate it 😄 I'm not a hive specialist, but, looking at the apache hive, you may find something on these links: https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/cacb1c09574c89ac07fcffc0b8c3fad18e283aec/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroSerDe.java https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/ae008b79b5d52ed6a38875b73025a505725828eb/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroSerializer.java https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/ae008b79b5d52ed6a38875b73025a505725828eb/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroDeserializer.java https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/ff67cdda1c538dc65087878eeba3e165cf3230f4/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/avro/AvroObjectInspectorGenerator.java https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/c2940a07cf0891e922672782b73ec22551a7eedd/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/exec/DDLTask.java Hope this helps! ... View more