Caching and uncaching tables

In the lesson we learned that tables can be cached. Whereas a dataframe is cached using a cache or persist operation, a table is cached using a cacheTable operation.

A table called table1 is available.

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Introduction to Spark SQL in Python

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List the tables with the listTables() method.
Cache table1 and confirm that it is cached.
Uncache table1 and confirm that it is uncached.

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# List the tables
print("Tables:\n", spark.____.____())

# Cache table1 and Confirm that it is cached
spark.catalog.____('table1')
print("table1 is cached: ", spark.catalog.____('table1'))

# Uncache table1 and confirm that it is uncached
spark.catalog.____('table1')
print("table1 is cached: ", spark.catalog.____('table1'))

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