Re: sqlContext vs spark.

2017-02-03 Thread Jacek Laskowski
Hi, Yes. Forget about SQLContext. It's been merged into SparkSession as of Spark 2.0 (same about HiveContext). Long live SparkSession! :-) Jacek On 3 Feb 2017 7:48 p.m., "☼ R Nair (रविशंकर नायर)" < ravishankar.n...@gmail.com> wrote: All, In Spark 1.6.0, we used val jdbcDF =

sqlContext vs spark.

2017-02-03 Thread रविशंकर नायर
All, In Spark 1.6.0, we used val jdbcDF = sqlContext.read.format(-) for creating a data frame through hsbc. In Spark 2.1.x, we have seen this is val jdbcDF = *spark*.read.format(-) Does that mean we should not be using sqlContext going forward? Also, we see that sqlContext is not auto