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BobEng
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Delta Live Tables are dropped when pipeline is deleted

I created simplistic DLT pipeline that create one table. When I delete the pipeline the tables is dropped as well. That's not really desired behavior. Since I remember there was a strong distinction between data (stored in tables) and processing (spa...

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dwfchu1
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UC Volume access for spark and other config files

Hi All,Wondering if anyone else getting this problem:We trying to host krb5.conf and jaas.conf for our compute to be able to connect to Kerberised JDBC sources, we attempting to store these files in Catalog volumes, but at run time when initiating th...

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mbendana
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Haven't been able to access volume path when using jdbc format.

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Sas
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Deltalke performance

HiI am new to databricks and i am trying to understand the use case of deta lakehouse. Is it good idea to build datawarehouse using deltalake architecture. Is it going to give same performance as that of RDBMS clouse datawarehous like snowflake? Whic...

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Miguel_Suarez
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Hi @Sas , One of the benefits of the Data Lakehouse architecture, is that it combines the best of both Data Warehouses and Data Lakes all on one unified platform to help you reduce costs and deliver on your data and AI initiatives faster. It brings t...

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djhs
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Resolved! Installing a private pypi package from Gitlab on a cluster

I have published a pypi package in a private Gitlab repository and I want to install it in my notebook but I don't know how and the documentation doesn't help me much either. I have created a Gitlab token that I use in the index url and I try to inst...

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djhs
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This problem was solved by removing the `python>=3.11` requirement.

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DaveLeach
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Resolved! Remove ZOrdering

Hi, I am trying to demonstrate the effectiveness of ZOrdering but to do this would like to remove the existing ZOrdering first.  So my plan is:1. Remove existing ZOrdering2. Run a query and show the explain plan3. Add ZOrdering to column used for Joi...

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shan_chandra
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@DaveLeach - you can try dropping the table and create it again instead of #1. 

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rahulmadnawat
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Resolved! Columns tab in Data Explorer doesn't reflect schema changes to table

Hey team, we've noticed that schema changes to a table after creation aren't reflected in the "Columns" tab in the Data Explorer. For example, we added a column called signal_description to a table but its addition isn't reflected in the UI. Is this ...

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claudius_hini
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@Tharun-Kumar Is this behavior the default behavior in case a schema change happens on a table registered in unity catalog?In that case I would have to run the repair command regularly in order to ensure that the schema displayed is actually the one ...

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rt-slowth
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User: anonymous is not authorized to perform: sqs:receivemessage on resource

  from pyspark.sql import functions as F from pyspark.sql import types as T from pyspark.sql import DataFrame, Column from pyspark.sql.types import Row import dlt S3_PATH = 's3://datalake-lab/xxxx/' S3_SCHEMA = 's3://datalake-lab/xxxx/schemas/' @dl...

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SimhadriRaju
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How to check file exists in databricks

I Have a while loop there i have to check a file exists or not if exists read the file in a data frame else go to another file

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Amit_Dass
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How to check if a file exists in DBFS?Let's write a Python function to check if the file exists or not-------------------------------------------------------------def file_exists(path):    try:        dbutils.fs.ls(path)        return True    except ...

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AlexWeh
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Universal Azure Credential Passthrough

At the moment, Azure Databricks has the feature to use AzureAD login for the workspace and create single user clusters with Azure Data Lake Storage credential passthrough. But this can only be used for Data Lake Storage.Is there already a way, or are...

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polivbr
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I have exactly the same issue. I have the need to call a protected API within a notebook but have no access to the current user's access token. I've had to resort to nasty workarounds involving installing and running the Azure CLI from within the not...

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neha_ayodhya
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pytesseract.pytesseract.TesseractNotFoundError in databricks notebook

I'm trying to extract the text data from image file in Databricks notebook I have installed below libraries using pip command: %pip install pytesseract tesseract pillow --upgradebut it didn't work and threw below error pytesseract.pytesseract.Tessera...

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shan_chandra
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Hi @neha_ayodhya  - can you please try the following via an init script to the Databricks cluster sudo apt-get update -y sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr sudo apt-get install -y libtesseract-dev /databricks/python/bin/pip install pytesseract  a...

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wwarner
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Delete S3 files after vacuum

Hi,I'm trying to purge a table of stale data. My databricks host is on cloud.databricks.com.I've set delta.deletedFileRetentionDuration=interval 7 days, deleted many (billions) rows, and followed up with VACUUM tablename RETAIN 168 HOURS, however my ...

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shan_chandra
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Hi Bill - Based on the delta delete file retention period, the files will no longer be there after 7 days . Thanks, Shan

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achistef
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Resolved! Refresh the Spark UI automatically

Hello!I'm using Databricks with Azure. On a daily basis, I check the status of numerous jobs through the Spark UI. At the moment, the Spark UI does not refresh by itself. I have to refresh the webpage to get the latest status. I wonder if there is a ...

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shan_chandra
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@achistef - you are welcome!!!

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therealchainman
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Resolved! Databricks Auto Loader cloudFiles.backfillInterval

Hello, I have been reading databricks Auto Loader documentation about cloudFiles.backfillInterval configuration, and have a question about a specific detail on how it works still.  I was only able to find examples of it being set to 1 day or 1 week. ...

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saipujari_spark
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Hey @therealchainman The last backfill (lastBackfillFinishTimeMs) will be recorded as part of the checkpoint -> offset files, this helps the autoloader to know when the last backfill is triggered and to trigger the next periodic backfill.Hope this an...

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Nathant93
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alter function owner in UC

I have a number of functions in a schema in a catalog in Unity Catalog, is there a coding way to be able to change the owner of the functions created without having to do it manually via the gui?

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ossinova
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Check this notebook out, I assume you can change it a bit to do what you want. https://docs.databricks.com/en/_extras/notebooks/source/set-owners-notebook.htmlI assume you can loop through the rows in the resulting df (that has the ALTER statements),...

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