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# Generic Load/Save Functions

The default data source (parquet unless otherwise configured by spark.sql.sources.default) will be used for all operations.

```
val usersDF = spark.read.load("file:///home/dv6/spark/spark/examples/src/main/resources/users.parquet")
usersDF.select("name", "favorite_color").write.save("file:///tmp/namesAndFavColors.parquet")
```

or you can write in one line

```
spark.read.load("file:///home/dv6/spark/spark/examples/src/main/resources/users.parquet")
    .select("name", "favorite_color")
     .write.save("file:///tmp/namesAndFavColors.parquet")
```