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I am trying to iterate through every row of the first column of the following output.

Assume table Employees has 3 columns: FirstName, MiddleName, LastName

table1=spark.sql("Select * from Employees")

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  • what do you want to do with that iteration? Commented Mar 3, 2022 at 21:58
  • just print each row. so tom, bob, gary would be printed @pltc Commented Mar 3, 2022 at 22:00

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If your table is small enough, then collect would be the best table1.select('FirstName').collect()

However, keep in mind that collect is not scalable, as it uses a single machine instead of distributing the workload to workers.

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