USE functional_avro_snap; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS schema_resolution_test; CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE schema_resolution_test ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.avro.AvroSerDe' STORED AS INPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerInputFormat' OUTPUTFORMAT 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.avro.AvroContainerOutputFormat' LOCATION '${hiveconf:hive.metastore.warehouse.dir}/avro_schema_resolution_test/' TBLPROPERTIES ('avro.schema.literal'='{ "name": "a", "type": "record", "fields": [ {"name":"boolean1", "type":"boolean", "default": true}, {"name":"int1", "type":"int", "default": 1}, {"name":"long1", "type":"long", "default": 1}, {"name":"float1", "type":"float", "default": 1.0}, {"name":"double1", "type":"double", "default": 1.0}, {"name":"string1", "type":"string", "default": "default string"}, {"name":"string2", "type": ["string", "null"], "default": ""}, {"name":"string3", "type": ["null", "string"], "default": null} ]}'); LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'records1.avro' OVERWRITE INTO TABLE schema_resolution_test; LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH 'records2.avro' INTO TABLE schema_resolution_test;