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[TABLE_OR_VIEW_ALREADY_EXISTS] when running create or replace view

claudiazi
New Contributor II

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, then no such error will show.

Any idea what is causing this?

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raphaelblg
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

@claudiazi from what we've discussed so far I see no reason for the failure. 

Not sure if this error is something the community can help with but maybe opening a support ticket through https://help.databricks.com/s/ might be a good idea.

Where's this query being submitted? Interactive cluster, SQL Warehouse, dbt?

 

Best regards,

Raphael Balogo
Sr. Technical Solutions Engineer
Databricks

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raphaelblg
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

Hi @claudiazi,

It's hard to determine the exact root cause of the issue, but there's a known issue that could lead to the same error. 

If you check CREATE TABLE [USING] - Parameters. You'll be able to see the following note:

 

Databricks strongly recommends using REPLACE instead of dropping and re-creating Delta Lake tables.

This is because the pattern of deleting and creating Delta Lake tables without the REPLACE clause might not clean-up all the metadata files right away. 

 

Best regards,

Raphael Balogo
Sr. Technical Solutions Engineer
Databricks

claudiazi
New Contributor II

@raphaelblg thaanks a lot for your reply! However the command were `create or replace view/table` Thats why I'm very surprised that we are getting this error message ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”๐Ÿค”

 

raphaelblg
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

@claudiazi Are you the owner of the view?

 

Best regards,

Raphael Balogo
Sr. Technical Solutions Engineer
Databricks

claudiazi
New Contributor II

@raphaelblg yes! Im the owner. However, these views are inside the hive_metastore catalog. Could it be the reason?
Many thaaanks!

raphaelblg
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

@claudiazi from what we've discussed so far I see no reason for the failure. 

Not sure if this error is something the community can help with but maybe opening a support ticket through https://help.databricks.com/s/ might be a good idea.

Where's this query being submitted? Interactive cluster, SQL Warehouse, dbt?

 

Best regards,

Raphael Balogo
Sr. Technical Solutions Engineer
Databricks

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