diff --git a/coral-schema/src/main/java/com/linkedin/coral/schema/avro/SchemaUtilities.java b/coral-schema/src/main/java/com/linkedin/coral/schema/avro/SchemaUtilities.java
index be5ffb2c0..fc96da69e 100644
--- a/coral-schema/src/main/java/com/linkedin/coral/schema/avro/SchemaUtilities.java
+++ b/coral-schema/src/main/java/com/linkedin/coral/schema/avro/SchemaUtilities.java
@@ -496,7 +496,12 @@ static Schema addPartitionColsToSchema(@Nonnull Schema schema, @Nonnull Table ta
         convertFieldSchemaToAvroSchema("partitionCols", "partitionCols", true, tableOrView.getPartitionKeys());
 
     List<Schema.Field> fieldsWithPartitionColumns = cloneFieldList(schema.getFields());
-    fieldsWithPartitionColumns.addAll(cloneFieldList(partitionColumnsSchema.getFields(), true));
+    Set<String> existingFieldNames = schema.getFields().stream().map(Schema.Field::name).collect(Collectors.toSet());
+    for (Schema.Field partitionField : cloneFieldList(partitionColumnsSchema.getFields(), true)) {
+      if (!existingFieldNames.contains(partitionField.name())) {
+        fieldsWithPartitionColumns.add(partitionField);
+      }
+    }
 
     Schema schemaWithPartitionColumns =
         Schema.createRecord(schema.getName(), schema.getDoc(), schema.getNamespace(), schema.isError());
diff --git a/coral-schema/src/test/java/com/linkedin/coral/schema/avro/SchemaUtilitiesTests.java b/coral-schema/src/test/java/com/linkedin/coral/schema/avro/SchemaUtilitiesTests.java
index 0a53c87f1..83ae7a34f 100644
--- a/coral-schema/src/test/java/com/linkedin/coral/schema/avro/SchemaUtilitiesTests.java
+++ b/coral-schema/src/test/java/com/linkedin/coral/schema/avro/SchemaUtilitiesTests.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 package com.linkedin.coral.schema.avro;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -15,6 +16,9 @@
 
 import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.avro.SchemaBuilder;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.FieldSchema;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.StorageDescriptor;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table;
 import org.testng.Assert;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
@@ -483,4 +487,50 @@ public void testSetupNameAndNamespaceDetectsDeeplyNestedCollisions() {
     Assert.assertTrue(metadataNamespace.contains("IntermediateRecord"),
         "Metadata namespace should follow hierarchical naming. Got: " + metadataNamespace);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Test that addPartitionColsToSchema does not add a duplicate field when the schema
+   * already contains a field with the same name as a partition column.
+   * This can happen when a Hive view projects a partition column as a regular column.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testAddPartitionColsToSchemaSkipsDuplicates() {
+    Schema schemaWithPartCol = SchemaBuilder.record("testRecord").namespace("com.test").fields().name("id").type()
+        .nullable().intType().noDefault().name("date_col").type().nullable().stringType().noDefault().endRecord();
+
+    Table table = new Table();
+    table.setDbName("default");
+    table.setTableName("test_table");
+    table.setPartitionKeys(Collections.singletonList(new FieldSchema("date_col", "string", null)));
+    table.setSd(new StorageDescriptor());
+
+    // Before the fix, this would throw: "Duplicate field date_col in record testRecord"
+    Schema result = SchemaUtilities.addPartitionColsToSchema(schemaWithPartCol, table);
+
+    Assert.assertEquals(result.getFields().size(), 2, "Should have 2 fields: id and date_col (no duplicate)");
+    Assert.assertNotNull(result.getField("id"));
+    Assert.assertNotNull(result.getField("date_col"));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Test that addPartitionColsToSchema still adds partition columns when they don't already exist.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testAddPartitionColsToSchemaAddsNewPartitionCol() {
+    Schema schemaWithoutPartCol = SchemaBuilder.record("testRecord").namespace("com.test").fields().name("id").type()
+        .nullable().intType().noDefault().name("value").type().nullable().stringType().noDefault().endRecord();
+
+    Table table = new Table();
+    table.setDbName("default");
+    table.setTableName("test_table");
+    table.setPartitionKeys(Collections.singletonList(new FieldSchema("date_col", "string", null)));
+    table.setSd(new StorageDescriptor());
+
+    Schema result = SchemaUtilities.addPartitionColsToSchema(schemaWithoutPartCol, table);
+
+    Assert.assertEquals(result.getFields().size(), 3, "Should have 3 fields: id, value, and date_col");
+    Assert.assertNotNull(result.getField("id"));
+    Assert.assertNotNull(result.getField("value"));
+    Assert.assertNotNull(result.getField("date_col"));
+  }
 }