Spark sql SQLContext - sql

Question

I'm trying to select data from MSSQL database via SQLContext.sql in Spark application.
Connection works but I'm not able to select data from table, because it always fail on table name.
Here is my code:
val prop=new Properties()
val url2="jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://servername;instance=MSSQLSERVER;user=sa;password=Pass;"
prop.setProperty("user","username")
prop.setProperty("driver" , "net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver")
prop.setProperty("password","mypassword")
val test=sqlContext.read.jdbc(url2,"[dbName].[dbo].[Table name]",prop)
sqlContext.sql("""
SELECT *
FROM 'dbName.dbo.Table name'
""")
I tried table name without (') or [dbName].[dbo].[Table name] but still the same ....
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: [3.14] failure:
``union'' expected but `.' found
dependencies:
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-core_2.11
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" % "spark-core_2.10" % "1.6.1" //%"provided"
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.datastax.spark/spark-cassandra-connector_2.10
libraryDependencies += "com.datastax.spark" % "spark-cassandra-connector_2.10" % "1.6.0"
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.spark/spark-sql_2.10
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.spark" % "spark-sql_2.10" % "1.6.1" //%"provided"

Answer 1

I think the problem in your code is that the query you pass to sqlContext has no access to the original table in the source database. It has only access to the tables saved within the sql context, for example with df.write.saveAsTable() or with df.registerTempTable() (df.createTempView in Spark 2+).
So, in your specific case, I can suggest a couple of options:
1) if you want the query to be executed on the source database with the exact syntax of your database SQL, you can pass the query to the "dbtable" argument:
val query = "SELECT * FROM dbName.dbo.TableName"
val df = sqlContext.read.jdbc(url2, s"($query) AS subquery", prop)
df.show
Note that the query needs to be in parentheses, because it will be passed to a "FROM" clause, as specified in the docs:
dbtable: The JDBC table that should be read. Note that anything that is valid in a FROM clause of a SQL query can be used. For example, instead of a full table you could also use a subquery in parentheses.
2) If you don't need to run the query on the source database, you can just pass the table name and then create a temp view in the sqlContext:
val table = sqlContext.read.jdbc(url2, "dbName.dbo.TableName", prop)
table.registerTempTable("temp_table")
val df = sqlContext.sql("SELECT * FROM temp_table")
// or sqlContext.table("temp_table")
df.show()