Hi I have a unity catalog enabled workspaces in us-east-1 and would like to setup DR Databricks workspace in us-east-2. How can we achieve as I don't see a clear path for syncing metadata and delta tables across regions.
HiWe have a shared access mode cluster in which we have installed a maven library for reading excel files into a Spark DataFrame. When using an account with admin rights everything works fine, however when we run it as a standar user we always get `o...
Hello James, this issue seems to be related to shared cluster limitations, as per docs: Libraries used as JDBC drivers or custom Spark data sources on Unity Catalog-enabled shared compute require ANY FILE permissions.Moving to a single user cluster m...
I would like to add comments to all of our columns, programmatically. The only way I can find to do this is through SQL DDL - e.g. `alter table sometable alter column somecolumn comment 'some comment string`. However, I want to read this comment stri...
Hi @JameDavi_51481 ,I do not believe this is supported currently, please see this line in the Parameter Marker documentation: > You must not reference a parameter marker in a DDL statement...Ref: https://docs.databricks.com/en/sql/language-manual/sql...
I am working on use case to clone a table which has column and row level masking implemented.Can i clone the table, based on documentation it is not possible. what are the other alternatives i have ?
@amit-agarwal4 At the current moment, I'm not aware of any other way than disabling the RLS.
Hey folks,Facing an issue with zone_id not getting overridden when redeploying the DAB template to Databricks workspace.The Databricks job is already deployed and has "ap-south-1a" zone_id. I wanted to make it "auto" so, I have made the changes to th...
Hi Team, I am trying to update the catalog permission privileges using databricks cli command Grant by appending json file but which is not updating the prIviliges, please help on grant update command usage.Command using : databricks grants update c...
Hello @Prasad_Koneru If the command is not updating the privileges as expected, there could be a few reasons for this. Firstly, ensure that the JSON file is correctly formatted and contains the correct privilege assignments. The privileges.json fi...
Databricks notebook, Scala, .read() .write(), source data csv. Got this error when trying to write data to sqlmi. I understand the error indicated one of the source column value's length exceeded the database column's value length. But the message is...
Thanks JamesY, I'm not familiar with the limitations of the SQL Server `nvarchar` data type but is there a way that we can filter out the rows that will fail using spark such as: spark.read.format("csv").option("header", "true").load("/path/to/csvs")...
When I'm running `dbt run -s model` for different models in parallel on databricks general compute cluster. Im getting the error: TABLE_OR_VIEW_ALREADY_EXISTS. Also, at the same time, the view/table was not created at all.But I run them in sequence, ...
@raphaelblg yes! Im the owner. However, these views are inside the hive_metastore catalog. Could it be the reason?Many thaaanks!
I have some CSV files that I upload to DBFS storage several times a day. From these CSVs, I have created SQL tables: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS masterdata.lookup_host USING CSV OPTIONS (header "true", inferSchema "true") LOCATION '/mnt/masterdata/...
One approach I'm testing (positive results so far, but still early).%sql # Prep and cleanup REFRESH TABLE masterdata.lookup_host; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t_hosts; # Forcibly cache the needed columns before using the data in another query. CACHE TABLE...
Hi,I have a single-node personal cluster with 56GB memory(Node type: Standard_DS5_v2, runtime: 14.3 LTS ML). The same configuration is done for the job cluster as well and the following problem applies to both clusters:To start with: once I start my ...
Hi @egndz, It seems like you’re dealing with memory issues in your Spark cluster, and I understand how frustrating that can be. Initial Memory Allocation: The initial memory allocation you’re observing (18 GB used + 4.1 GB cached) is likely a com...
Hi,I am getting data from CDC on SQL Server using Informatica which is writing parquet files to ADLS. I read the parquet files using DLT and end up with the date data as a string such as this'20240603164746563' I couldn't get this to convert using m...
Hi @SamGreene, You’re on the right track with using the TO_TIMESTAMP function. However, you might be encountering issues due to the format of your timestamp string. The string ‘20240603164746563’ seems to represent a timestamp down to the millisecond...
I have a zip file which in turn has multiple zip files inside it. I tried to write a code in databricks notebook to unzip all these files at once, but I ran into an error. So I started to unzip these one by one, but the code which worked in unzipping...
Hi @traillog, Did you try this ?
Hello,Our cloud platform engineer created Azure storage for the production Unity Catalog metastore in our environment, but mistakenly chose the Premium tier instead of the Standard tier.Unfortunately, this decision is impacting our costs on Azure, as...
I have a cluster in which I have the required configuration to access an ADLS Gen2, and it works without any problems.I want to access this storage using the Hadoop filesystem APIs. To achieve this, I am trying to get the Hadoop configuration from th...
By the way how do you achieve inline code highlighting in the editor I tried `` but it didn't work.
I wasn't at DAIS24, but I received one of these emails and it appears to have come from Databricks. I think I was given the badge in error. Can we have it removed?Just Wondering,Shawn
Hi @Shawn_Eary Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We were conducting a test on badges, and some of our community members may have received this email by accident. We have revoked the changes now, please ignore the message.
