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Why ETL Pipelines and Jobs
I do notice that ETL Pipelines let's you run declarative SQL syntax such as DLT tables but you can do the same with Jobs if you use SQL as your task type. So why and when to use ETL Pipelines?
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Hi @john77 SQL Task Type : Simple, one-off SQL operations or batch jobs + you need to orchestrate a mix of notebooks, Python/Scala code, and SQL in a single workflowLakeflow Declarative Pipelines : Complex , production ETL jobs requires lineage , mon...
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Install the ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server
Hi,I am not a Data Engineer, I want to connect to ssas. It looks like it can be connected through pyodbc. however looks like I need to install "ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server" using the following command. How do i install the driver on the cluster an...
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The format of the `table_name` argument you're supplying to the `jdbc_writer` method appears to be the cause of the issue you're seeing. A string containing exactly one period is expected to divide into two pieces by the line `schema, table = table_n...
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Urgent: Certificate not received [Ticket ID #00751495]
I passed the "Data bricks Certified Developer for Apache Spark – Python" exam on 30/09/2025, but I have not yet received my certificate or badge. I’ve checked my email (including spam folders) and logged into credentials.databricks.com, but nothing i...
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Figure out stale tables/folders being loaded by auto-loader
Hello allWe have a pipeline which uses auto-loader to load data from cloud object storage (ADLS) to a delta table. We use directory listing at the moment. And there exist around 20000 folders to be verified in ADLS every 30 mins to check for new data...
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@szymon_dybczak ah sorry, let me rephrase. I tried the command initially on the delta table directly. That resulted the error. Then I tried on the check point. It did give me results though discovered on null for all the rows. Still, this does not s...
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How Databricks Helped Me See Data Engineering Differently
Over the years working as a data engineer, I’ve started to see my role very differently. In the beginning, most of my focus was on building pipelines—extracting, transforming, and loading data so it could land in the right place. Pipelines were the g...
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Infor Data Lake to Databricks
I'm working on this project which involves moving data from Infor to Databricks.Infor is somewhat of an enterprise solution. I could not find much resources on this. I could not even find any free trial option on their site.If anyone has experience w...
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I specialise in data migration with Infor.What is your question, how to connect databricks to the infor datalake through the data fabric?
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Resolved! DBR 16.4 LTS - Spark 3.5.2 is not compatible with Delta Lake 3.3.1
I'm migrating to Databricks Runtime 16.4 LTS, which is using Spark 3.5.2 and Delta Lake 3.3.1 according to the documentation: Databricks Runtime 16.4 LTS - Azure Databricks | Microsoft LearnI've upgraded my conda environment to use those versions, bu...
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@leireroman encountered the same and used an override (like a pip constraints.txt file or PDM resolution override specification) to make sure my local development environment matched the runtime.
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Resolved! Folder execute permissions
Hello,After reading multiple posts, going thru online forums, even asking AI I still don't have an answer for my questions. On the latest Databricks with unity catalog, what happens if I give users Execute permissions on a folder.Can they view the co...
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Thanks for your response. That's what I imagined although could not confirm as my current project uses Unity Catalog and we are not allowed to run many commands including ACL related PySpark code.
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[VARIANT_SIZE_LIMIT] Cannot build variant bigger than 16.0 MiB in parse_json
I have a table coming from postgreSql, with one column containing json data in string format. We have been using parse_json to convert that to a vraiant column. But lately it is failing with the SIZE_LIMIT error. When I isolated the row which gave er...
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Hi @bbastian ,Unfortunately, as of now there is strict limitation regarding size - a variant column cannot contain a value larger than 16 MiB.Variant support in Delta Lake | Databricks on AWSAnd tbh you cannot compare the size of this json string to ...
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Resolved! Combining multiple Academy profiles
I have this profile @gmail.com; my personal professional profile.I also have a @mycompany.com profile.How do I combine both so I can leave my current job for a better life without losing the accolades I'm accumulated under my @mycompany.com login giv...
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How to select performance mode for Databricks Delta Live Tables
Hi everyone,Based on the official link,For triggered pipelines, you can select the serverless compute performance mode using the Performance optimized setting in the pipeline scheduler. When this setting is disabled, the pipeline uses standard perfor...
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I would like an answer to his question also, I need to see how to turn this off, but any check box relating to performance optimization in my serverless pipeline does not show up.
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ResultSet metadata does not return correct type for TIMESTAMP_NTZ
Hello, using the JDBC driver, when I retrieve the metadata of a ResultSet, the type for a TIMESTAMP_NTZ is not correct (it's a TIMESTAMP one).My SQL is a simple SELECT * on a table where you have a TIMESTAMP_NTZ columnThis works when retrieving metad...
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Hi, thanks for the response !ok,as it was working on table metadata, I thought the doc was not up to date.. so it's partially supported. do you know if there is any chance it will be fully supported in some 'near' future ?Thanks
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How to setup lakeflow HTTP for connector with M2M Authentication
I am getting the following error about content-type with no option to pick a different content-type when configuring the lakeflow connectorThe OAuth token exchange failed with HTTP status code 415 Unsupported Media Type. The returned server response ...
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Hi @gzr58l are you configuring a custom Lakeflow connector or external connection in Databricks? Also, consider using a service principal or personal access token (PAT) for authentication as a temporary workaround.
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ExcelWriter and local files
I have a couple things going on here.First, to explain what I'm doing, I'm passing an array of objects in to a function that contain a dataframe per item. I want to write those dataframes to an excel workbook - one dataframe per worksheet. That part ...
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Here's a pretty easy way to recreate the issue - simplified to ignore the ExcelWriter part...You can see the file is copied and shows up when listed. But can't be find from Pandas. Same behavior on local_disk0 and /tmp
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Resolved! JDCB Error trying a get schemas call.
Hi Community,I have a free demo version and can create a jdbc connection and get metadata (schema, table, and columns structure info). Everything works as described in the docs, but when working with someone who has a paid version of databricks the s...
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@JeffSeaman , please let us know if any of my suggestions help get you on the right track. If they do, kindly mark the post as "Accepted Solution" so others can benefit as well. Cheers, Louis.
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