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jeremy98
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how to fallback the entire job in case of failure of the cluster?

Hi community,My team and I are using a job that is triggered based on dynamic scheduling, with the schedule defined within some of the job's tasks. However, this job is attached to a cluster that is always running and never terminated.I understand th...

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RiyazAliM
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Hey @jeremy98 Have you had a chance to experiment with Databricks Serverless offering? Ideally, serverless would spin up times are around ~1 min. It has inbuilt autoscaling based on the workload, seems good fit for your usecase. Check out more info f...

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suja
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Exploring parallelism for multiple tables

I am new to databricks. The app we need to build reads from hive tables, go thru bronze, silver and gold layers and store in relational db tables.  There are multiple hive tables with no dependencies. What is the best way to achieve parallelism. Do w...

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lingareddy_Alva
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Hi @suja Use Databricks Workflows (Jobs) with Task ParallelismInstead of using threads within a single notebook, leverage Databricks Jobs to define multiple tasks, each responsible for a table. Tasks can:                     1. Run in parallel       ...

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ABINASH
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Flattening VARIANT column.

Hi Team, I am facing an issue, i have a json file which is around 700kb and it contains only 1 record, so after reading the data and flattening the file the record is now 620 million. Now while i am writing the dataframe into delta lake it is taking ...

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samshifflett46
Databricks Partner
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Hey @ABINASH, The JSON file being flattened to 620 million records seems like the area of optimization would be to restructure the JSON file. My initial thought being that the JSON file is extremely nested which is causing a large amount of redundant...

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sondergaard
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Simba ODBC driver // .Net Core

Hi,I have been looking into the Simba Spark ODBC driver to see if it can simplify our integration with .Net Core. The first results were promising, but when I started to process larger queries I started to notice out-of-memory exceptions in the conta...

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Rjdudley
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Something we're considering for a similar purpose (.NET Core service pulling data from Databricks) is the ADO.NET connector from CData: Databricks Driver: ADO.NET Provider | Create & integrate .NET apps

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ashraf1395
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Fething the catalog and schema which is set in dlt pipeline configuration

I have a dlt pipeline and the notebook which is running on the dlt pipeline has some requirements.I want to get the catalog and schema which is set my dlt pipeline. Reason for it: I have to specify my volume files paths etc and my volume is on the sa...

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SP_6721
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Hi @ashraf1395 Can you try this to get the catalog and schema set by your DLT pipeline in the notebookcatalog = spark.conf.get("pipelines.catalog")schema = spark.conf.get("pipelines.schema")

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ankit001mittal
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DLT Pipeline Stats on Object level

Hi Guys,I want to create a table where I want to store information about each DLT pipelines on object/table id level details about how much time it took for waiting for resources and how much time it took to run for each object and numbers or records...

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RiyazAliM
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Hi @ankit001mittal DLT Event logs helps you to gather most of the information you've mentioned above. Below is the documentation to the DLT Event Logs:https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dlt/observabilityLet me know if any questions.Best,

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Ekaterina_Paste
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Resolved! Can't login to databricks community edition

I enter my valid login and password here https://community.cloud.databricks.com/login.html but it says "Invalid email address or password"

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Venkat124488
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data bricks cluster is terminating each 15 sec in community edition. Could you please help me on this issue.  

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cookiebaker
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Resolved! Some DLTpipelines suddely seem to take different runtime 16.1 instead of 15.4 since last night (CET)

Hello, Suddenly since last night on some of our DLT pipelines we're getting failures saying that our hive_metastore control table cannot be found. All of our DLT's are set up the same (serverless), and one Shared Compute on runtime version 15.4. For ...

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cookiebaker
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@voo-rodrigo Hello, thanks for updating the progress on your end! I've tested as well and confirmed that the DLT can read the hive_metastore via Serverless again. 

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BrendanTierney
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Resolved! Community Edition is not allocating Cluster

I've been trying to use the Community edition for the past 3 days without success.I go to run a Notebook and it begins to allocated the Cluster, but it it never finishes. Sometimes it times out after 15 minutes.Waiting for cluster to start: Finding i...

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JD2001
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I am running into the same issue since today. It worked fine till yesterday.

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ZacayDaushin
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How to access system.access.table_lineage

I try to make a select from system.access.table_lineage but i dont have to see the tablewhat permission to i have 

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Nivethan_Venkat
Databricks MVP
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Hi @ZacayDaushin,To query the table in system catalog, you need to have SELECT permission on top of the table to query and see the results.Best Regards,Nivethan V

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smpa01
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Resolved! tbl name as paramater marker

I am getting an error here, when I do this//this works fine declare sqlStr = 'select col1 from catalog.schema.tbl LIMIT (?)'; declare arg1 = 500; EXECUTE IMMEDIATE sqlStr USING arg1; //this does not declare sqlStr = 'select col1 from (?) LIMIT (?)';...

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lingareddy_Alva
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@smpa01 In SQL EXECUTE IMMEDIATE, you can only parameterize values, not identifiers like table names, column names, or database names.That is, placeholders (?) can only replace constant values, not object names (tables, schemas, columns, etc.).SELECT...

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p_romm
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Structured Streaming writeStream - Query is no longer active causes task to fail

Hi, I execute readStream/writeStream in workflow task. Write stream uses .trigger(availableNow=True) option. After writeStream I'm waiting query to finish with query.awaitTermination(). However from time to time, pipeline ends with "Query <id> is no ...

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cmathieu
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@Alberto_Umana this bug was apparently fixed a few months ago, but we're still facing the same issue on our end. 

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397973
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Resolved! Several unavoidable for loops are slowing this PySpark code. Is it possible to improve it?

Hi. I have a PySpark notebook that takes 25 minutes to run as opposed to one minute in on-prem Linux + Pandas. How can I speed it up?It's not a volume issue. The input is around 30k rows. Output is the same because there's no filtering or aggregation...

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lingareddy_Alva
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@397973 Spark is optimized for 100s of GB or millions of rows, NOT small in-memory lookups with heavy control flow (unless engineered carefully).That's why Pandas is much faster for your specific case now.Pre-load and Broadcast All MappingsInstead of...

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Lo
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SocketTimeoutException when creating execution context in Databricks Community Edition

Hello,I’m experiencing an issue in Databricks Community Edition.When I try to run a notebook, I get this error:"Exception when creating execution context: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: connect Timeout"What I have tried:- Restarting the cluster- Ch...

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Advika
Community Manager
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Hello @Lo! There is a similar thread where another user encountered the same issue and shared a solution that worked for them. I suggest reviewing that thread to see if the solution is helpful in your case as well.

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vidya_kothavale
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Issue reading Vertica table into Databricks - Numeric value out of range

I am trying to read a Vertica table into a Spark DataFrame using JDBC in Databricks.Here is my sample code:hostname = ""username = ""password = ""database_port = ""database_name = ""qry_col_level = f"""SELECT * FROM analytics_DS.ansh_units_cum_dash""...

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Renu_
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Hi @vidya_kothavale, based on my research and understanding, Databricks and Spark's JDBC connectors currently don’t offer an automatic way to truncate or round high precision decimal values when loading data. To handle this, you would need to either:...

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