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maasg
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Displaying images hosted in a Unity Catalog volume in a notebook

I have an image dataset in a Volume in the Unity Catalog.As part of exploratory analysis, I want to run some queries and display the resulting image set.Yet, including dynamic references to images in the Catalog doesn't seem to work on a Databricks N...

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maasg
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Hi @Walter_C , Thanks for your suggestion. Exporting the images (=> duplicating the storage) is a no-go in our case. We are talking about very large automotive datasets.Is there another option or should we consider moving this data out of the catalog...

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writetofaiz
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Error: Unable to locate package winehq-stable

Hi,I am running a notebook which has mix of python and scala codes. Below code was working fine until May 27, 2025. However, since yesterday, I’ve been encountering the following error: "E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable".Could someone please...

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Aviral-Bhardwaj
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add me https://www.linkedin.com/in/aviralb/ we will do live debugging 

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Pavankumar7
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Resolved! Error: Community edition spark job skewnees

I am trying to run the spark job in community edition, but when I noticed in the spark UI the whole data is reading on the driver node, instead of reading it on the worker node.does community version will not support for the worker node?

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Aviral-Bhardwaj
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In Databricks Community Edition, the compute environment is set up as a single-node cluster. This means there is only one node, which serves both as the driver and the worker. Because of this, all data processing—including reading data—is performed o...

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Bram
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Configuration spark.sql.sources.partitionOverwriteMode is not available.

Dear, In the current setup, we are using dbt as a modeling tool for our data lakehouse.For a specific use case, we want to use the insert_overwrite strategy, where dbt will replace all data for a specific partition:Databricks configurations | dbt Dev...

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hendrik
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An approach that works well when using a Databricks SQL Warehouse is to use the replace_where strategy - I've just tested this. It also works with partitioned tables:{{ config( materialized='incremental', incremental_strategy='replace_where', ...

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SteveC527
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Medallion Architecture and Databricks Assistant

I am in the process of rebuilding the data lake at my current company with databricks and I'm struggling to find comprehensive best practices for naming conventions and structuring medallion architecture to work optimally with the Databricks assistan...

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suman23479
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If we talk about traditional data warehouse way of building the architecture, we can consider Silver layer as Data mart with star schema kind of relations for dimensions and fact. Can we build entire DWH enterprise scale using databrikcs? I see in pr...

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Splush
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JDBC Oracle Connection change Container Statement

Hey,Im running into a weird issue while running the following code:def getDf(query, preamble_sql=None): jdbc_url = f"jdbc:oracle:thin:@//{host}:{port}/{service_name}" request = spark.read \ .format("jdbc") \ .o...

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Louis_Frolio
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Here is something to consider: The issue you're experiencing likely stems from differences in behavior when accessing Oracle database objects via Spark JDBC versus other database clients like DBeaver. Specifically, Spark's JDBC interface may perform ...

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JD2
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Resolved! Auto Loader for Shape File

Hello: As you can see from below link, that it support 7 file formats. I am dealing with GeoSpatial Shape files and I want to know if Auto Loader can support Shape Files ???Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Thanks. https://docs.microsoft.com/...

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-werners-
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You could try to use the binary file type. But the disadvantage of this is that the content of the shape files will be put into a column, that might not be what you want.If you absolutely want to use the autoloader, maybe some thinking outside the b...

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petehart92
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Error While Rendering Visualization -- Map (Markers)

I have a table with latitude and longitude for a few addresses (no more than 10 at the moment) but when I select the appropriate columns in the visualization editor for Map (Markers) I get an message that states "error while rendering visualization"....

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Gabi_A
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Having the same issue. Every time I update my SQL, all the widgets drop and show the error 'Unable to render visualization'. The only way I found to fix is to manually duplicate all my widgets and delete the old ones with errors, which is a pain and ...

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martheelise
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What happens when you change from .ipynb to .py as default fileformat for notebooks

Hi, I was struggling to do Pull Requests with the "new" default fileformat for Notebooks and wanted to change it back to source(.py). My questions are:1) Does this affect the whole workspace for all users?2) Does this change the format of old .ipynb ...

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Walter_C
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Changing the default notebook file format from .ipynb to .py in Databricks has several implications based on current implementations and user scenarios: User Experience: The .ipynb format captures more comprehensive data, including environment setti...

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Sahil0007
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Databricks Delta table Merge Command Issue

I have one table customer and 1 temp view which I am creating from the incremental file and using as a source in merge command. Earlier the notebook was working fine from the adf pipeline, but from past few days, I am getting an error states that my ...

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MujtabaNoori
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Hi @Sahil0007 ,The [REDACTED] value you're seeing is being retrieved from Key Vault.Here is the workaround, you can reverse the value twice to decode it and retrieve the original string. Alternatively, you can slice the string into two parts and conc...

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jorhona
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Resolved! Deleted schema leads to DLT pipeline problems

Hello. When testing a dlt table pipeline i accidentally mispelt the target schema. The pipeline worked and created the tables. After realising my mistake, i deleted the tables and the schema - thinking nothing of it. However when I run the pipeline w...

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jorhona
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In the end i deleted and recreated the pipeline which fixed the problem. Luckily it was only in dev so didnt lose any history of pipeline success etc in prod. Still, is a bit of a pain for dlt, along with the problem of multiple developers not being ...

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ForestDD
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java.lang.NoSuchMethodError after upgrade to Databricks Runtime 13

We use spark mssql connector to connect sql server, it works well on dbr runtime 10.*, 11.* and 12.*. But when we use dbr 13.*, we got the error below. It happens when we are trying to use df.write to save the data to the sql database.We have encount...

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AradhanaSahu
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I was also facing the same issue while writing to a sql server. Was able to resolve it by updating the format to "jdbc" instead of "com.micorsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.spark".df.write.format("jdbc") works on DBR 13.3 LTS using the connector: com.microsoft.a...

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iarregui
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Getting a Databricks static IP

Hello. I want to connect from my Databricks workspace to an external API to extract some data. The owner of the API asks for an IP to provide the token necessary for the extraction of data. Therefore I would need to set a static IP in Databricks that...

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Wojciech_BUK
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Hello, the easiest way (in Azure) is to deploy Workspace in VNET Injection mode and attach NAT Gateway to you VNET. NAT GW require Public IP. This IP will be your static egress IP for all Cluster in for this Workspace.Note: both NAT GW and IP Address...

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samtech
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Regional Workspaces . How to consolidate

Hi,We have similar catalog (specific to regional data) in APAC worksace and America workspace. Our goal is to have silver table created in each regional worksapce and then consolidate as gold in one of the workspace. So if i create silver in APAC and...

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lingareddy_Alva
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Hi @samtech Yes, you're on the right track! For cross-workspace data access in Databricks.Yes, Delta Sharing is the recommended approach for accessing tables across different Databricks workspaces/regions.

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Bart_DE
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Resolved! Databricks Asset Bundle conditional job cluster size?

Hey folks,Can someone please suggest if there is a way to spawn a job cluster of a given size if a parameter of the job invocation (e.g file_name) contains a desired value? I have a job which 90% of the time deals with very small files, but the remai...

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lingareddy_Alva
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Hi @Bart_DE No — a single job.yml file can’t “look inside” a parameter like file_name and then decide to spin up a different job-cluster size on the fly.Job-cluster definitions in Databricks Workflows (Jobs) are static. All the heavy-lifting has to b...

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