How to write a table to hive from spark without using the warehouse connector in HDP 3.1

Question

when trying to use spark 2.3 on HDP 3.1 to write to a Hive table without the warehouse connector directly into hives schema using:

spark-shell --driver-memor         


        

Answer 1

Inside Ambari simply disabling the option of creating transactional tables by default solves my problem.

set to false twice (tez, llap)

hive.strict.managed.tables = false

and enable manually in each table property if desired (to use a transactional table).