“INSERT INTO …” with SparkSQL HiveContext

Question

I\'m trying to run an insert statement with my HiveContext, like this:

hiveContext.sql(\'insert into my_table (id, score) values (1, 10)\')

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Answer 1

Data can be appended to a Hive table using the append mode on the DataFrameWriter.

data = hc.sql("select 1 as id, 10 as score")
data.write.mode("append").saveAsTable("my_table")

This gives the same result as an insert.