By SparkSQLContext, I assume you mean SQLContext. >From the doc for SQLContext#createDataFrame():
* dataFrame.registerTempTable("people") * sqlContext.sql("select name from people").collect.foreach(println) If you want to persist table externally, you need Hive, etc Regards On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Raghu Ganti <raghuki...@gmail.com> wrote: > This requires Hive to be installed and uses HiveContext, right? > > What is the SparkSQLContext useful for? > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Please take a look >> at sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveDataFrameSuite.scala >> >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:57 AM, raghukiran <raghuki...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Is creating a table using the SparkSQLContext currently supported? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Raghu >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Spark-SQL-create-table-tp25996.html >>> Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org >>> >>> >> >