“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

The accepted answer saveAsTable fails for me with an AnalysisException (I don't understand why). What works for me instead is:

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

I'm using Spark v2.1.0.