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JDL
by New Contributor III
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Get number of rows in delta lake table from metadata without count(*)

Hello folks,Is there a way with sql query to get count from delta table metadata without doing count(*) on each of table? Wondering, if this information is stored in any of INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables.I have a use-case to get counts from 1000's of delt...

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SSundaram
Databricks Partner
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 Here is a related one.https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/how-to-get-the-total-number-of-records-in-a-delta-table-from-the/td-p/20441

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karthik_p
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Disaster Recovery Issue

We are trying to create Disaster Recovery for UC enabled Workspaces in Azure. our UC metastore are in different regions.1. we are trying to use Deep Clone2. In source we are adding region2 metastore as external location3. able to do deep cloneproblem...

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-werners-
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Right I get it.Actually cloning it as external seems logical to me, for the moment, as unity cannot manage the other metastore.For the moment I would go with cloning the data and then creating an external table of that.Not ideal, but at least you hav...

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JDL
by New Contributor III
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Tie Parquet files in Azure ADLS to Databricks table

Hello All,I have databricks delta table with files residing in Azure Data Lake. I understand, when I load create table and load data from databricks, it creates respective folder and files for table in ADLS. I am wondering if there is reverse way to ...

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JDL
New Contributor III
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Thanks @Retired_mod this is helpful

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RonMoody
by New Contributor II
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service principal table accesses not showing up in system.audit

When we run jobs using service principals system.audit doesn't show any table accesses (getTable). Volume (getVolume) shows up for service principals. Same query when run as a user shows up in system.audit. I know system.audit is in public preview. W...

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RonMoody
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hi @Retired_mod thanks so much for your reply ! I was referring to https://docs.databricks.com/en/administration-guide/system-tables/audit-logs.html which is part of databricks core offering and isn't related to ServiceNow's offering. I am assuming t...

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cltj
by New Contributor III
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Three level name space naming standard

Hi all, I have not been successful in getting a good grip of the naming conventions for the three level name space. Initially i learned about bronze, silver and gold, but i am confused where to put this. The obvious choice may be to use the {catalog}...

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aayusha3
by Databricks Partner
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Internal error: Attach your notebook to a different compute or restart the current compute.

I am currently using a personal computer cluster [13.3 LTS (includes Apache Spark 3.4.1, Scala 2.12)] on GCP attached to a notebook. After running a few command lines without an issue, I end up getting this error  Internal error. Attach your notebook...

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amandaolens
Databricks Partner
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@Martin74  same here martin.

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niklas
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Resolved! Error: cannot create metastore data access

I'm in the progress of enabling Databricks Unity Catalog and encountered a problem with the databricks_metastore_data_access Terraform resource:resource "databricks_metastore_data_access" "this" { provider = databricks.account-level metastore_id...

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metastore
Terraform
Unity Catalog
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niklas
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Found a solution. Please see my answer on Stack Overflow:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77440091/databricks-unity-catalog-error-cannot-create-metastore-data-access/77506306#77506306

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NateJ
by New Contributor II
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Failed to start cluster: Large docker image

I have a large Docker image in our AWS ECR repo. The image is 27.4 GB locally and 11539.79 MB compressed in ECR.The error from the Event Log is:Failed to add 2 containers to the compute. Will attempt retry: true. Reason: Docker image pull failureJSON...

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amoghjain
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I have a similar problem. a 10gb image pulls fine but a 31gb image doesnt. both workers and drivers have 64gb memory. i get the timeout error with "Cannot launch the cluster because pulling the docker image failed. Please double check connectivity fr...

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Learnit
by New Contributor II
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Databricks deployment and automation tools comparison.

Hello All, As a newcomer to databricks, I am seeking guidance on automation within databricks environments. What are the best best practices for deployment, and how do Terraform, the REST API, and the databricks SDK compare in terms of advantages and...

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MasJamei
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Notebook Id level of uniqueness

Hi there,We know that notebook ids are unique. https://docs.databricks.com/en/workspace/workspace-details.html but I want to know in what level they're unique. For example, if Notebook Ids are unique within a workspace, or are they universally unique...

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