topic Difference between "spark.table" & "spark.read.table"? in Data Engineering

Difference between "spark.table" & "spark.read.table"?

Mado — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:26:06 GMT

Hi,

I want to make a PySpark DataFrame from a Table. I would like to ask about the difference of the following commands:

spark.read.table(TableName)

spark.table(TableName)

Both return PySpark DataFrame and look similar. Thanks.

User16826993570 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:58:19 GMT

There is no difference between spark.table & spark.read.table function.

Inside of spark.read.table is again calling spark.table function.

Mado — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:21:17 GMT

Hi @Kaniz Fatma

I selected answer from @Kedar Deshpande as the best answer.