diff --git a/src/main/java/com/highperformancespark/examples/dataframe/JavaHappyPandas.java b/src/main/java/com/highperformancespark/examples/dataframe/JavaHappyPandas.java
index ac0a6a3..dd84e1a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/highperformancespark/examples/dataframe/JavaHappyPandas.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/highperformancespark/examples/dataframe/JavaHappyPandas.java
@@ -155,11 +155,6 @@ public DataFrame simpleSqlExample(DataFrame pandas) {
     return miniPandas;
   }
 
-  public void startJDBCServer(HiveContext sqlContext) {
-    sqlContext.setConf("hive.server2.thrift.port", "9090");
-    HiveThriftServer2.startWithContext(sqlContext);
-  }
-
   /**
    * Orders pandas by size ascending and by age descending.
    * Pandas will be sorted by "size" first and if two pandas