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Nis
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! can we commit offset in spark structured streaming in databricks.

We are storing offset details in checkpoint location wanted to know is there a way can we commit offset once we consume the message from kafka.

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raphaelblg
Databricks Employee
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@dmytro yes, but this feature is currently in Private Preview. Please submit a support case in https://help.databricks.com/s/ if you have interest in trying out this new feature.

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chaosBEE
by New Contributor II
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StructField Metadata Dictionary - What are the possible keys?

I have a Delta Live Table which is being deposited to Unity Catalog. In the Python notebook, I am defining the schema with a series of StructFields, for example: StructField(    "columnName",     StringType(),     True,     metadata = {        'comme...

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ipreston
New Contributor III
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Bump,I've got the same issue. Looks like there was a partial reply from Kaniz but I can't see it in this thread.

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BNV
by New Contributor II
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Translating SQL Value Function For XML To Databricks SQL

Trying to translate this line of a SQL query that evaluates XML to Databricks SQL.SELECT   MyColumn.value('(/XMLData/Values/ValueDefinition[@colID="10"]/@Value)[1]', 'VARCHAR(max)') as Color The XML looks like this:<XMLData><Values><ValueDefinition c...

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hari-prasad
Valued Contributor II
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Yes, now they support XML parse directly in databricks 14.3 or higher, else earlier you could have leveraged spark xml library jars to parse it.You can still leverage xpath in case where one of data column hold XML value in a dataset. As @BNV is look...

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aliacovella
by Contributor
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Resolved! How can I dedupe from a table created from a Kinesis change data capture feed.

Here I have a table named organizations_silver that was build from a bronze table created from a Kinesis change data capture feed.@dlt.table(name="kinesis_raw_stream", table_properties={"pipelines.reset.allowed": "false"})def kinesis_raw_stream(): ...

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Alberto_Umana
Databricks Employee
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Hello @aliacovella, Looks like there are duplicate records in your source table that match the same target record. This is indeed the case since your source table, organizations_silver, contains duplicates due to the append-only nature of the Kinesis...

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krishnachaitany
by Databricks Partner
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Resolved! Spot instance in Azure Databricks

When I run a job enabling using spot instances , I would like to know how many number of workers are using spot and how many number of workers are using on demand instances for a given job run In order to identify the spot instances we got for any...

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drumcircle
Databricks Partner
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This remains a challenge using system tables.

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TimB
by New Contributor III
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Create external table using multiple paths/locations

I want to create an external table from more than a single path. I have configured my storage creds and added an external location, and I can successfully create a table using the following code;create table test.base.Example using csv options ( h...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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You do not have to create all the partition folders yourslef. You just need to specify the parent folder like  CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE <catalog>.<schema>.<table-name> USING <format> PARTITIONED BY (<partition-column-list>) LOCATION 's3://<bucket-path...

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CDICSteph
by New Contributor
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permission denied listing external volume when using vscode databricks extension

hey, i'm using the Db extension for vscode (Databricks connect v2). When using dbutils to list an external volume defined in UC like so:   dbutils.fs.ls("/Volumes/dev/bronze/rawdatafiles/") i get this error: "databricks.sdk.errors.mapping.PermissionD...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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great, thanks for confirming. This feature was under development in the early quarter last year. Now it is available.

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SeliLi_52097
by New Contributor III
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Databricks Academy webpage showing insecure connection (in Chrome)

When I was trying to visit the Databricks Academy website https://customer-academy.databricks.com, it showed insecure connection as below.This happened at 8 January 2023 (AEDT) around 12:30pm.

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barendlinders
New Contributor II
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Certificate has expired again... 

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gfar
by New Contributor II
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Is it possible to connect QGIS to Databricks using ODBC?

I can connect ArcGIS to Databricks using ODBC, but using the same ODBC DSN for QGIS I get an error - Unable to initialize ODBC connection to DSNHas anyone got this working?

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fgoulet
New Contributor III
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That should probably help, but I tried and my table has 0 rows when the same table loaded with all the schema analyzed has 835...Still have testing to do, but with that, you can now choose a single file to add using the connection stringODBC:token/yo...

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rgomez
by New Contributor
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Install notebook dependency via terraform for serverless notebook tasks

I am trying to install a wheel file as a dependency for a serverless notebook task via terraform. According to https://docs.databricks.com/en/compute/serverless/dependencies.html , dependencies in serverless notebooks can be configured via the base e...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Currently, the databricks_job resource in Terraform does not support configuring the environment for notebook tasks directly. You can upload the YAML file and configure the environment as mentioned in https://docs.databricks.com/en/compute/serverless...

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TjommeV-Vlaio
by New Contributor III
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Which process is eating up my driver memory?

Hi,We're running DBR 14.3 on a shared multi-node cluster.When checking the metrics of the driver, I see that the Memory utilization and Memory swap utilization are increasing a lot and are almost never decreasing. Even if no processes are running any...

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-werners-
Esteemed Contributor III
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On OS level you will not see notebooks, you will see the mem consumption of the spark application (so this is all notebooks).For that there is the spark ui.I'd look for collect(), broadcast() statements. Python code outside of spark, tons of graphics...

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jeremy98
by Honored Contributor
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Resolved! Problem with installing Python WHEEL in an existed cluster

Hi community,I was running a workflow based on different tasks but also taking into account the existed cluster to execute those tasks, but I was getting error in configurations: run failed with error message Library installation failed for library d...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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You can do it by following steps in https://docs.databricks.com/en/compute/serverless/dependencies.html 

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Ajay-Pandey
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Support of running multiple cells at a time in databricks notebook Hi all,Now databricks notebook supports parallel run of commands in a single notebo...

Support of running multiple cells at a time in databricks notebookHi all,Now databricks notebook supports parallel run of commands in a single notebook that will help run ad hoc queries simultaneously without creating a separate notebook.Once you run...

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SunilUIIT
Databricks Partner
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Hi Team,I am observing that the functionality is not working as expected in the Trial workspace of Databricks. Is there a setting that needs to be enabled to allow independent SQL cells in a Databricks notebook to run in parallel, while dependent cel...

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amarnathpal
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Integrating PySpark DataFrame into SQL Dashboard for Enhanced Visualization

I have created a DataFrame in a notebook using PySpark and am considering creating a fully-featured dashboard in SQL. My question is whether I need to first store the DataFrame as a table in order to use it in the dashboard, or if it's possible to di...

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hari-prasad
Valued Contributor II
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Sorry, I vaugely remember we used to create persistent views on dataframe earlier.Currently, spark dataframe doesn't allow you to create pesistent view on dataframe, rather you have to create table to use it in SQL warehouse.# Assuming there is an ex...

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RiyazAliM
by Honored Contributor
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Requirement to remove/skip column(s) in the downstream tables/views while PII data masking

Hi there,As a compliance measure, I'm tasked with masking the PII data starting from bronze to silver and all the tables and views downstream. I suggested my clients to use row filters and column masks as mentioned in the doc.However, when a user who...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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You are right, on this case we might need to open a feature request through https://docs.databricks.com/en/resources/ideas.html#ideas 

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