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kanikvijay9
by • Contributor
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Optimizing Delta Table Writes for Massive Datasets in Databricks

Problem StatementIn one of my recent projects, I faced a significant challenge: Writing a huge dataset of 11,582,763,212 rows and 2,068 columns to a Databricks managed Delta table.The initial write operation took 22.4 hours using the following setup:...

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kanikvijay9
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Hey @Louis_Frolio ,Thank you for the thoughtful feedback and great suggestions!A few clarifications:AQE is already enabled in my setup, and it definitely helped reduce shuffle overhead during the write.Regarding Column Pruning, in this case, the fina...

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MandyR
by • Community Manager
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Another BrickTalks! Let's talk about bringing data intelligence from your Lakehouse into every app!

You asked, we delivered! Another BrickTalk is scheduled for Thursday, Nov 13 @ 9 AM PT with Pranav Aurora on how to bring data intelligence from your Lakehouse into every app and user, seamlessly and in real time. What you’ll learn: Use Lakebase (Po...

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MandyR
by • Community Manager
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Community Fellows: Shout Out to our Bricksters!

At Databricks, our Community members deserve to get a great experience in our forums, with quality answers from the experts. Who better to help out our customers than Databricks employees aka Bricksters! To work towards this goal, we created the Comm...

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bidek56
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Kudos to the DB team for keeping up with the community, but can you please work on your product as well?We are experiencing a lot of issues with your paid product: failures, crashes, slow starts and slow performance and the list goes on. Community wo...

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Coffee77
by • Honored Contributor III
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‌‌Cómo crear clusters en Databricks paso a paso | All-Purpose, Jobs Compute, SQL Warehouses y Pools

Recently having some fun with Databricks, I created a series of videos in Spanish  that I'd like to share here. I hope some of them could be interesting for Spanish or LATAM community Not sure if this is the most proper board to share or there is ano...

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Coffee77
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Añadido nuevo vídeo para crear clusters de tipo serverless para notebooks, jobs y DLTs https://youtu.be/RQvkssryjyQ?si=BkYI831mUK1vBE20

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BS_THE_ANALYST
by • Databricks Partner
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(Episode 1: Getting Data In) - Learning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition

Episode 1: Getting Data InLearning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition.Project IntroWelcome to everyone reading. My name’s Ben, a.k.a BS_THE_ANALYST, and I’m going to share my experiences as I learn the world of Databricks. My obje...

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Coffee77
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Really interesting post @BS_THE_ANALYST Caching up with Databricks stuff again

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jsdmatrix
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SQL Scripting in Apache Spark™ 4.0

The Apache Spark™ 4.0 introduces a new feature for SQL developers and data engineers: SQL Scripting. As such, this feature enhances the power and extends the flexibility of Spark SQL, enabling users to write procedural code within SQL queries, with t...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
by • Databricks Partner
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(Episode 3: Hands-on API Project) - Learning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition

Episode 3: APIsLearning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition.Project IntroWelcome to everyone reading. My name’s Ben, a.k.a BS_THE_ANALYST, and I’m going to share my experiences as I learn the world of Databricks. My objective is to...

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JoyO
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This is great, thanks for sharing Ben, will share with my data community.

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BS_THE_ANALYST
by • Databricks Partner
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(Episode 2: Reading Excel Files) - Learning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition

Episode 2: Reading Excel FilesLearning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition.You can download the accompanying Notebook and Excel files used in the demonstration over on my GitHub:Excel Files  & Notebook: https://github.com/BSanalyst...

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SHIFTY
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Thanks for this, @BS_THE_ANALYST.  Hugely beneficial.

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Hubert-Dudek
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Migrate External Tables to Managed

With managed tables, you can reduce your storage and compute costs thanks to predictive optimization or file list caching. Now it is really time to migrate external tables to managed ones, thanks to ALTER SET MANAGED functionality. Read more: - h...

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Senga98
by • Contributor
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Hadoop Walked So Databricks Could Run

Are you familiar with this scenario: Your data team spends 80% of their time fixing infrastructure issues instead of extracting insights.In today’s data-driven world, organisations are drowning in data but starving for actionable insights. Traditiona...

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Khaja_Zaffer
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Great one!! @Senga98  All the best!

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DavidOBrien
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Editing value of widget parameter within notebook code

I have a notebook with a text widget where I want to be able to edit the value of the widget within the notebook and then reference it in SQL code. For example, assuming there is a text widget named Var1 that has input value "Hello", I would want to ...

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Ville_Leinonen
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It seems that only way to use parameters in sql code block is to use dbutils.widget and you cannot change those parameters without removing widget and setting it up again in code

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Hubert-Dudek
by • Databricks MVP
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Relationship in databricks Genie

Now you can define relations also directly in Genie. It includes options like “Many to One”, “One to Many”, “One to One”, “Many to Many”. Read more: - https://databrickster.medium.com/relationship-in-databricks-genie-f8bf59a9b578 - https://www.su...

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Advika
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Thank you for sharing with the Community, @Hubert-Dudek!

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Yogesh_Verma_
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Real-Time Mode in Apache Spark Structured Streaming

Real-Time Mode in Spark StreamingApache Spark™ Structured Streaming has been the backbone of mission-critical pipelines for years — from ETL to near real-time analytics and machine learning.Now, Databricks has introduced something game-changing: Real...

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Advika
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And now in Public Preview! Thank you for writing this up, @Yogesh_Verma_.

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