exactly as @Prabakar Ammeappin​ said. If you want to keep access to your databases you need general-purpose cluster running. It will not work with (cheaper) job cluster. When you use jdbc/odbc connector to Spark (or some built in like in PowerBI) you also need to have general-purpose cluster running but soon for that purpose new SQL cluster will be introduced (which will be much cheaper than general-purpose cluster).


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