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Spark in Action, Second Edition
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Spark in Action, Second Edition

by Jean-Georges Perrin
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 41m
English
Manning Publications
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11. Working with SQL

This chapter covers

  • Using SQL within Spark
  • Determining the local or global scope of your views
  • Mixing both the dataframe API and SQL
  • Deleting records in a dataframe

Structured Query Language ( SQL ) is the golden standard for manipulating data. Introduced in 1974, it has since evolved to become an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 9075). The latest revision is SQL:2016.

It seems that SQL has been around forever as a way to extract and manipulate data in relational databases. And SQL will be around forever. When I was in college, I clearly remember asking my database professor, “Who do you expect will use SQL? A secretary making a report?” His answer was simply, “Yes.” (Based on that answer, I might just figure that you are a secretary ...

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