How to Execute sql queries in Apache Spark

Question

I am very new to Apache Spark.
I have already configured spark 2.0.2 on my local windows machine. I have done with "word count" example with spark.

Answer 1

In Spark 2.x you no longer reference sqlContext, but rather spark, so you need to do:

spark
  .read
  .format("jdbc")
  .option("url", "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb")
  .option("driver", "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")
  .option("dbtable", "mydb")
  .option("user", "root")
  .option("password", "")
  .load()