How to pass multiple statements into Spark SQL HiveContext
For example I have few Hive HQL statements which I want to pass into Spark SQL: set parquet.compression=SNAPPY; create table MY_TABLE stored as parquet as select * from ANOTHER_TABLE; select * from MY_TABLE limit 5; Following doesn't work: hiveContext.sql("set parquet.compression=SNAPPY; create table MY_TABLE stored as parquet as select * from ANOTHER_TABLE; select * from MY_TABLE limit 5;") How to pass the statements into Spark SQL? Thank you to @SamsonScharfrichter for the answer. This will work: hiveContext.sql("set spark.sql.parquet.compression.codec=SNAPPY") hiveContext.sql("create table