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MatthewMills
by Databricks Partner
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Resolved! DLT Apply Changes Tables corrupt

Got a weird DLT error.Test harness using the new(ish) 'Apply Changes from Snapshot' Functionality and DLT Serverless (Current Channel). Azure Aus East Region.Has been working for several months without issue - but within the last week these DLT table...

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Apply Changes From Snapshot
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Lakshay
Databricks Employee
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We have an open ticket on this issue. The issue is caused by the maintenance pipeline renaming the backing table. We expect the fix to be rolled out soon for this issue.

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shubham_007
by Contributor III
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Urgent !! Need information/details and reference link on below two topics:

Dear experts,I need urgent help and guidance on information/details with reference links on below topics:Steps on Package Installation with Serverless in Databricks.What are Delta Lake Connector with serverless ? How to run Delta Lake queries outside...

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brockb
Databricks Employee
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Seems like a duplicate: https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/urgent-need-information-details-and-reference-link-on-below-two/td-p/107260

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data-grassroots
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Ingesting Files - Same file name, modified content

We have a data feed with files whose filenames stays the same but the contents change over time (brand_a.csv, brand_b.csv, brand_c.csv ....).Copy Into seems to ignore the files when they change.If we set the Force flag to true and run it, we end up w...

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data-grassroots
New Contributor III
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Thanks for the validation, Werners! That's the path we've been heading down (copy + merge). I still have some DLT experiments planned but - at least for this situation - copy + merge works just fine.

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peter_ticker
by New Contributor III
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XML Auto Loader rescuedDataColumn Doesn't Rescue Array Fields

Hiya! I'm interested whether anyone has a solution to the following problem. If you load XML using Auto Loader or otherwise and set the schema to be such that a single value is assumed for a given xpath but the actual XML contains multiple values (i....

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Witold
Databricks Partner
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Let me rephrase it. You can't use Message as the rowTag, because it's the root element. rowTag implies that it's a tag within the root element, which might occur multiple times. Check the docs around reading and write XML files, there you'll find exa...

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evangelos
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Databricks asset bundles: name_prefix doesn't work with presets

Hello!I am deploying a databricks workflow using bundles and want to attach the prefix "prod_" to the name of my job.My target uses the `mode: production` and I follow the instructions in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dev-tools/b...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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You need to attach the prefix "prod_" to the name of your job in a Databricks workflow using bundles, you need to ensure that the name_prefix preset is correctly configured in your databricks.yml file.   targets: prod: mode: production pres...

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oakhill
by New Contributor III
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How do we create a job cluster in Databricks Asset Bundles for use across different jobs?

When developing jobs on DABs, we use new_cluster to create a cluster for a particular job. I think it's a lot of lines and YAML when what I really need is a "small cluster" and "big cluster" to reference for certain kind of jobs. Tags would be on the...

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filipniziol
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Hi @oakhill ,You can specify you job cluster configuration in your variables:variables: small_cluster_id: description: "The small cluster with 2 workers used by the jobs" type: complex default: spark_version: "15.4.x-scala2.12" ...

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saniok
by New Contributor II
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How to Handle Versioning in Databricks Asset Bundles?

 Hi everyone,In our organization, we are transitioning from defining Databricks jobs using the UI to managing them with asset bundles. Since asset bundles can be deployed across multiple workspaces—each potentially having multiple targets (e.g., stag...

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Alberto_Umana
Databricks Employee
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Hi @saniok,   In databricks.yml file you can include version information in this file to manage different versions of your bundles.Example: bundle: name: my-bundle version: 1.0.0 resources: jobs: my-job: name: my-job ...

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Avinash_Narala
by Databricks Partner
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Resolved! SQL Server to Databricks Migration

Hi,I want to build a python function to migrate SQL Server tables to Databricks.Is there any guide/ best practices on how to do so.It'll be really helpful if there is any.Regards,Avinash N

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filipniziol
Esteemed Contributor
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Hi @Avinash_Narala ,If it is lift and shift, then try this:1. Set up Lakehouse Federation to SQL Server2. Use CTAS statements to copy each table into Unity Catalog CREATE TABLE catalog_name.schema_name.table_name AS SELECT * FROM sql_server_catalog_...

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jeremy98
by Honored Contributor
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wheel package to install in a serveless workflow

Hi guys, Which is the way through Databricks Asset Bundle to declare a new job definition having a serveless compute associated on each task that composes the workflow and be able that inside each notebook task definition is possible to catch the dep...

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jeremy98
Honored Contributor
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Ping @Alberto_Umana 

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dbx-user7354
by New Contributor III
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Pyspark Dataframes orderby only orders within partition when having multiple worker

I came across a pyspark issue when sorting the dataframe by a column. It seems like pyspark only orders the data within partitions when having multiple worker, even though it shouldn't.  from pyspark.sql import functions as F import matplotlib.pyplot...

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Avinash_Narala
Databricks Partner
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Hi @dbx-user7354 ,OrderBy() should perform a global sort as showed in plot-2, but as per your problem it is sorting the data within the partitions which is the behavior of sortWithinPartitions(), so to solve this error. Please try with the latest DBR...

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SwathiChidurala
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! deltaformat

Hi,I am a student who learning databricks, In the below code I tried to write data in delta format to a gold layer. I authenticated using the service principle method to read, write and execute data , I assigned the storage blob contributor role, but...

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Avinash_Narala
Databricks Partner
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Hi @SwathiChidurala ,The error is because you don't have the folder trip_zone inside the gold folder, so you can try by removing the trip_zone from the location or adding the folder trip_zone inside the gold folder in adls and then try it again.If th...

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Abdurrahman
by New Contributor II
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Move files from DBFS to Workspace Folders databricks

I want to move a zip file from DBFS to a workspace folder.I am using dbutils.fs.cp("dbfs file path", "workspace folder path"), in databricks notebook and I am seeing the following error - ExecutionError: An error occurred while calling o455.cp. : jav...

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nick533
New Contributor III
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Permission denied appears to be the cause of the error message. To read from the DBFS path and write to the workspace folder, please make sure you have the required permissions. The following permissions may be required:The DBFS file path can be read...

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nhakobian
by Databricks Partner
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Python Artifact Installation Error on Runtime 16.1 on Shared Clusters

I've run into an issue with no clear path to resolution.Due to various integrations we have in Unity Catalog, some jobs we have to run in a Shared Cluster environment in order to authenticate properly to the underlying data resource. When setting up ...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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The deprecation of the Enable libraries and init scripts on shared Unity Catalog clusters setting is in Databricks Runtime 16.0 and above. Please refer to the documentation here  for deprecation. Disabling this feature at the workspace level would pr...

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ashraf1395
by Honored Contributor
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Resolved! Connecting Fivetran with databricks

So, We are migrating a hive metastore to UC catalog. We have some fivetran connections.We are creating all tables as external locations and we have specified the external locations at the schema level.So when we specify the destination in the fivetra...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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This message is just mentioning, if you do not provide the {{path}} it will use the default location which is on DBFS. When configuring the Fivetran connector, you will be prompted to select the catalog name, schema name, and then specify the externa...

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drag7ter
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Disable caching in Serverless SQL Warehouse

I have Serverless SQL Warehouse claster, and I run my sql code in sql editor. When I run query for the first time I see it take 30 secs total time, but all next time I see in query profiling that it gets result set from cache and takes 1-2 secs total...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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I am wondering if it is using Remote result cache, in that case the config should work. There are 4 types of cache mentioned here https://docs.databricks.com/en/sql/user/queries/query-caching.html#types-of-query-caches-in-databricks-sql Local cache: ...

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