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 initialized while running spark-shell. Please advise, thanks Best, Ravion
