In Spark SQL, select() function is used to select one or multiple columns, nested columns, column by index, all columns, from the list, by regular expression from a DataFrame. select() is a transformation function in Spark and returns a new DataFrame with the selected columns. You can also alias column…
In Spark SQL, in order to convert/cast String Type to Integer Type (int), you can use cast() function of Column class, use this function with withColumn(), select(), selectExpr() and SQL expression. This function takes the argument string representing the type you wanted to convert or any type that is a…
In PySpark SQL, using the cast() function you can convert the DataFrame column from String Type to Double Type or Float Type. This function takes the argument string representing the type you wanted to convert or any type that is a subclass of DataType. Key points cast() - cast() is…
Spark SQL select() and selectExpr() are used to select the columns from DataFrame and Dataset, In this article, I will explain select() vs selectExpr() differences with examples. Both these are transformation operations and return a new DataFrame or Dataset based on the usage of UnTyped and Type columns. Spark select()…
In PySpark, select() function is used to select single, multiple, column by index, all columns from the list and the nested columns from a DataFrame, PySpark select() is a transformation function hence it returns a new DataFrame with the selected columns. Select a Single & Multiple Columns from PySparkSelect All…