How to use SQL query to define table in dbtable?

Question

In JDBC To Other Databases I found the following explanation of dbtable parameter:

The JDBC table that should be read. Note that anythin

Answer 1

Code In Scala

val checkQuery = "(SELECT * FROM " + inputTableName + " ORDER BY " + columnName + " DESC LIMIT 1) AS timetable"

val timeStampDf = spark.read.format("jdbc").option("url", url).option("dbtable", checkQuery).load()

Adding an alias is also necessary after the query in parenthesis.

Answer 2

Since dbtable is used as a source for the SELECT statement it has be in a form which would be valid for normal SQL query. If you want to use subquery you should pass a query in parentheses and provide an alias:

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE jdbcTable
USING org.apache.spark.sql.jdbc
OPTIONS (
    url "jdbc:postgresql:dbserver",
    dbtable "(SELECT * FROM mytable) tmp"
);

It will be passed to the database as:

SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM mytable) tmp WHERE 1=0