diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220913-225328.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220913-225328.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b934c08c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220913-225328.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: Dependency
+body: "Bump pyodbc from 4.0.32 to 4.0.34"
+time: 2022-09-13T22:53:28.00000Z
+custom:
+  Author: dependabot[bot]
+  Issue: 417
+  PR: 459
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-191910.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-191910.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad2534c16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-191910.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: "Dependency"
+body: "Bump black from 22.3.0 to 22.8.0"
+time: 2022-09-14T19:19:10.00000Z
+custom:
+  Author: dependabot[bot]
+  Issue: 417
+  PR: 458
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192027.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192027.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1863b52fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192027.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: "Dependency"
+body: "Update click requirement from ~=8.0.4 to ~=8.1.3"
+time: 2022-09-14T19:20:27.00000Z
+custom:
+  Author: dependabot[bot]
+  Issue: 417
+  PR: 457
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192102.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192102.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f13fd6c45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192102.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: "Dependency"
+body: "Bump mypy from 0.950 to 0.971"
+time: 2022-09-14T19:21:02.00000Z
+custom:
+  Author: dependabot[bot]
+  Issue: 417
+  PR: 456
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192125.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192125.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..78234be80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Dependency-20220914-192125.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: "Dependency"
+body: "Bump thrift-sasl from 0.4.1 to 0.4.3"
+time: 2022-09-14T19:21:25.00000Z
+custom:
+  Author: dependabot[bot]
+  Issue: 417
+  PR: 455
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Features-20220920-000814.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Features-20220920-000814.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96ba63648
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Features-20220920-000814.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: Features
+body: implement testing for type_boolean in spark
+time: 2022-09-20T00:08:14.15447+01:00
+custom:
+  Author: jpmmcneill
+  Issue: "470"
+  PR: "471"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20220916-125706.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20220916-125706.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..54b82eb55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20220916-125706.yaml	
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: Under the Hood
+body: Enable Pandas and Pandas-on-Spark DataFrames for dbt python models
+time: 2022-09-16T12:57:06.846297-06:00
+custom:
+  Author: chamini2 dbeatty10
+  Issue: "468"
+  PR: "469"
diff --git a/dbt/include/spark/macros/materializations/table.sql b/dbt/include/spark/macros/materializations/table.sql
index d39ba0b44..25d70c722 100644
--- a/dbt/include/spark/macros/materializations/table.sql
+++ b/dbt/include/spark/macros/materializations/table.sql
@@ -41,7 +41,40 @@
 # --- Autogenerated dbt materialization code. --- #
 dbt = dbtObj(spark.table)
 df = model(dbt, spark)
-df.write.mode("overwrite").format("delta").saveAsTable("{{ target_relation }}")
+
+import importlib.util
+
+pandas_available = False
+pyspark_available = False
+
+# make sure pandas exists before using it
+if importlib.util.find_spec("pandas"):
+  import pandas
+  pandas_available = True
+
+# make sure pyspark.pandas exists before using it
+if importlib.util.find_spec("pyspark.pandas"):
+  import pyspark.pandas
+  pyspark_available = True
+
+# preferentially convert pandas DataFrames to pandas-on-Spark DataFrames first
+# since they know how to convert pandas DataFrames better than `spark.createDataFrame(df)`
+# and converting from pandas-on-Spark to Spark DataFrame has no overhead
+if pyspark_available and pandas_available and isinstance(df, pandas.core.frame.DataFrame):
+  df = pyspark.pandas.frame.DataFrame(df)
+
+# convert to pyspark.sql.dataframe.DataFrame
+if isinstance(df, pyspark.sql.dataframe.DataFrame):
+  pass  # since it is already a Spark DataFrame
+elif pyspark_available and isinstance(df, pyspark.pandas.frame.DataFrame):
+  df = df.to_spark()
+elif pandas_available and isinstance(df, pandas.core.frame.DataFrame):
+  df = spark.createDataFrame(df)
+else:
+  msg = f"{type(df)} is not a supported type for dbt Python materialization"
+  raise Exception(msg)
+
+df.write.mode("overwrite").format("delta").option("overwriteSchema", "true").saveAsTable("{{ target_relation }}")
 {%- endmacro -%}
 
 {%macro py_script_comment()%}
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 5b29e5e9d..e93c1b41a 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ git+https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core.git#egg=dbt-tests-adapter&subdirectory=
 
 
 
-black==22.3.0
+black==22.8.0
 bumpversion
-click~=8.0.4
+click~=8.1.3
 flake8
 flaky
 freezegun==0.3.9
 ipdb
 mock>=1.3.0
-mypy==0.950
+mypy==0.971
 pre-commit
 pytest-csv
 pytest-dotenv
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ tox>=3.2.0
 
 # Test requirements
 sasl>=0.2.1
-thrift_sasl==0.4.1
+thrift_sasl==0.4.3
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5d774e4f7..14b36b723 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 PyHive[hive]>=0.6.0,<0.7.0
 requests[python]>=2.28.1
 
-pyodbc==4.0.32
+pyodbc==4.0.34
 sqlparams>=3.0.0
 thrift>=0.13.0
 sqlparse>=0.4.2 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
diff --git a/tests/functional/adapter/utils/test_data_types.py b/tests/functional/adapter/utils/test_data_types.py
index 65a24a3a9..ce6085803 100644
--- a/tests/functional/adapter/utils/test_data_types.py
+++ b/tests/functional/adapter/utils/test_data_types.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from dbt.tests.adapter.utils.data_types.test_type_numeric import BaseTypeNumeric
 from dbt.tests.adapter.utils.data_types.test_type_string import BaseTypeString
 from dbt.tests.adapter.utils.data_types.test_type_timestamp import BaseTypeTimestamp
+from dbt.tests.adapter.utils.data_types.test_type_boolean import BaseTypeBoolean
 
 
 class TestTypeBigInt(BaseTypeBigInt):
@@ -65,3 +66,7 @@ class TestTypeString(BaseTypeString):
     
 class TestTypeTimestamp(BaseTypeTimestamp):
     pass
+
+
+class TestTypeBoolean(BaseTypeBoolean):
+    pass