diff --git a/agents/drivers/hive/src/main/java/com/dbx/agent/hive/HiveAgent.java b/agents/drivers/hive/src/main/java/com/dbx/agent/hive/HiveAgent.java
index 2001ccc32..01c2766cd 100644
--- a/agents/drivers/hive/src/main/java/com/dbx/agent/hive/HiveAgent.java
+++ b/agents/drivers/hive/src/main/java/com/dbx/agent/hive/HiveAgent.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import com.dbx.agent.QueryResult;
 import java.sql.Connection;
 import java.sql.DatabaseMetaData;
 import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.sql.Statement;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Comparator;
@@ -86,6 +87,26 @@ public final class HiveAgent extends AbstractJdbcAgent {
         });
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public String getTableDdl(String schema, String table) {
+        return unchecked(() -> {
+            String qualifiedName = schema == null || schema.trim().isEmpty()
+                ? JdbcIdentifiers.INSTANCE.backtick(table)
+                : JdbcIdentifiers.INSTANCE.backtick(schema) + "." + JdbcIdentifiers.INSTANCE.backtick(table);
+            try (Statement stmt = requireConnected().createStatement();
+                 ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SHOW CREATE TABLE " + qualifiedName)) {
+                StringBuilder ddl = new StringBuilder();
+                while (rs.next()) {
+                    String line = rs.getString(1);
+                    if (line != null) {
+                        ddl.append(line).append('\n');
+                    }
+                }
+                return ddl.toString();
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
     @Override
     public List<IndexInfo> listIndexes(String schema, String table) {
         return Collections.emptyList();
diff --git a/agents/drivers/hive/src/test/java/com/dbx/agent/hive/HiveAgentTest.java b/agents/drivers/hive/src/test/java/com/dbx/agent/hive/HiveAgentTest.java
index f3496cdae..46691cb11 100644
--- a/agents/drivers/hive/src/test/java/com/dbx/agent/hive/HiveAgentTest.java
+++ b/agents/drivers/hive/src/test/java/com/dbx/agent/hive/HiveAgentTest.java
@@ -1,8 +1,18 @@
 package com.dbx.agent.hive;
 
 import com.dbx.agent.ConnectParams;
+import com.dbx.agent.test.TestSupport;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.sql.Statement;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
 
 class HiveAgentTest {
@@ -39,4 +49,79 @@ class HiveAgentTest {
             HiveAgent.buildUrl(params)
         );
     }
+
+    @Test
+    void getTableDdlUsesHiveShowCreateTable() {
+        HiveAgent agent = new HiveAgent();
+        List<String> queries = new ArrayList<>();
+        String expectedDdl = "CREATE TABLE `hive_test`.`cleaned_data_table`(col string)\n"
+            + "ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe'\n"
+            + "LOCATION 'hdfs://warehouse/cleaned_data_table'";
+        ResultSet resultSet = proxy(ResultSet.class, new InvocationHandler() {
+            private int row = -1;
+
+            @Override
+            public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args) {
+                if ("next".equals(method.getName())) {
+                    return ++row == 0;
+                }
+                if ("getString".equals(method.getName())) {
+                    return expectedDdl;
+                }
+                return defaultValue(method.getReturnType());
+            }
+        });
+        Statement statement = proxy(Statement.class, (proxy, method, args) -> {
+            if ("executeQuery".equals(method.getName())) {
+                queries.add((String) args[0]);
+                return resultSet;
+            }
+            return defaultValue(method.getReturnType());
+        });
+        Connection connection = proxy(Connection.class, (proxy, method, args) -> {
+            if ("createStatement".equals(method.getName())) {
+                return statement;
+            }
+            if ("isClosed".equals(method.getName())) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            return defaultValue(method.getReturnType());
+        });
+        TestSupport.setPrivateConnection(agent, connection);
+
+        assertEquals(expectedDdl + "\n", agent.getTableDdl("hive_test", "cleaned_data_table"));
+        assertEquals(List.of("SHOW CREATE TABLE `hive_test`.`cleaned_data_table`"), queries);
+    }
+
+    private static <T> T proxy(Class<T> type, InvocationHandler handler) {
+        return type.cast(Proxy.newProxyInstance(type.getClassLoader(), new Class<?>[]{type}, handler));
+    }
+
+    private static Object defaultValue(Class<?> type) {
+        if (type == boolean.class) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (type == int.class) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+        if (type == long.class) {
+            return 0L;
+        }
+        if (type == float.class) {
+            return 0F;
+        }
+        if (type == double.class) {
+            return 0D;
+        }
+        if (type == byte.class) {
+            return (byte) 0;
+        }
+        if (type == short.class) {
+            return (short) 0;
+        }
+        if (type == char.class) {
+            return '\0';
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
 }