How to create SQLContext in spark using scala?

For newer versions of Spark (2.0+), use SparkSession:

val spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()

SparkSession can do everything SQLContext can do but if needed the SQLContext can be accessed as follows,

val sqlContext = spark.sqlContext

You need to new your SparkContext and that should solve it

Simply we can create SQLContext in scala

scala> val sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext(sc);