Hi    We are also facing the same issue of invalid file footer, the table is created as follows :   2 tables created   CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ABC_TEXT ( NAME STRING, ID INT, PHONE INT) PARTITION BY (Customer_id INT) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';' STORED AS TEXTFILE LOCATION '/USER/ABC_TEXT ;       CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ABC_PARQUET ( NAME STRING, ID INT, PHONE INT ) PARTITION BY (Customer_id INT) STORED AS PARQUET LOCATION '/USER/ABC_PARQUET' ;   Then run the insert script, which inserts data perfectly but when queried on parquet table getting following error      Error: Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: [Simba][ImpalaJDBCDriver](500312) Error in fetching data rows:  Invalid file footer   Please let me know what I am doing wrong.               ... View more