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Ruby8376
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Schema definition help in scala notebook in databricks !!!!!!!1

I am building schema for an incoming avro file(json message) and creating a final dataframe for it. The schema built looks fine as per the json sample message provided but I am getting null values in all the fields. Can somebody look at this code and...

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erigaud
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Resolved! Gracefully stop a job based on condition

Hello, I have a job with many tasks running on a schedule, and the first tasks checks a condition. Based on the condition, I would either want to continue the job as normal, or to stop right away and don't run all the other tasks. Is there a way to d...

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erigaud
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I think the best way to accomplish this would be to either propagate the check, as mentionned by @menotron, or have the initial task in another job, and only run the second job if the condition is met. Obviously it depends on the use case. Thank you ...

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Ria
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How to build master workflow for all the jobs present in workflow using databricks?

Suppose there are multiple job have been created using databricks workflow, now the requirement is to make one master workflow to trigger all the workflow depending on different condition like: some are supposed to trigger on daily basis, some on mon...

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pvignesh92
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@Ria Hi , This feature was in development when I attended last Quarter Roadmap and I thought it is available in the latest versions or could be even in Private Preview. You can check with your Databricks Solution Architect. Even if not now, could be ...

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s041507
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Autoloader cannot load files from Repos with runtime 13.0+

Since runtime 13.0+ it is not possible anymore to reference Repos files with Autoloader using the "file:" prefix, e.g. "file:/Workspace/Repos/...". This was working before, but now Autoloader throws an error:com.databricks.sql.cloudfiles.errors.Cloud...

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Magnus
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Auto Loader fails when reading json element containing space

I'm using Auto Loader as part of a Delta Live Tables pipeline to ingest json files, and today it failed with this error message:om.databricks.sql.transaction.tahoe.DeltaAnalysisException: Found invalid character(s) among ' ,;{}()\n\t=' in the column ...

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Tharun-Kumar
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@Magnus You can read the input file using Pandas or Koalas (https://koalas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)then rename the columnsthen convert the Pandas/Koalas dataframe to Spark dataframe. You can write it back with the correct column name, so ...

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207474
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How do I get the total number of queries run per day on a databricks SQL warehouse/endpoint?

I am trying to access the API: GET https://<databricks-instance>.cloud.databricks.com/api/2.0/sql/history/queries

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Vidula
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Hi there @Sravan Burla​ Hope all is well! Just wanted to check in if you were able to resolve your issue and would you be happy to share the solution or mark an answer as best? Else please let us know if you need more help. We'd love to hear from you...

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THIAM_HUATTAN
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Delta Live Tables Example Questions

I am testing with some examples of Delta Live Tables from https://github.com/databricks/delta-live-tables-notebooks/tree/main/divvy-bike-demoI have ran all the relevant files of ingestion:python-weatherinfo-api-ingest.pypython-divvybike-api-ingest-st...

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Nick_Hughes
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Best way to generate fake data using underlying schema

HiWe are trying to generate fake data to run our tests. For example, we have a pipeline that creates a gold layer fact table form 6 underlying source tables in our silver layer. We want to generate the data in a way that recognises the relationships ...

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RonanStokes_DB
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Hi @Nick_Hughes This may be late for your scenario - but hopefully others facing similar issues will find it useful.You can specify how data is generated in `dbldatagen` using rules in the data generation spec. If rules are specified for data generat...

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Raghav2
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AnalysisException: [COLUMN_ALREADY_EXISTS] The column `<col>` already exists. Consider to choose an

Hey Guys,          I'm facing this exception while trying to read public s3 bucket "Analysis Exception: [COLUMN_ALREADY_EXISTS] The column `<column name>` already exists. Consider to choose another name or rename the existing column.",also thing is I...

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Lakshay
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You can use dbutils to read the file.%fshead <s3 path>

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kll
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PythonException: TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NoneType'

I get an PythonException: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NoneType' when attempting to save a DataFrame as a Delta Table. Here's the line of code that I am running:```df.write.format("delta").saveAsTable("schema1.df_table", mode="...

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Lakshay
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Even though the code throws the issue while write, the issue can be in the code before as spark is lazily evaluated. The error "TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NoneType'" generally comes when we pass a variable to float...

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erigaud
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Resolved! Save to parquet with fixed size

I have a large dataframe (>1TB) I have to save in parquet format (not delta for this use case). When I save the dataframe using .format("parquet") it results in several parquet files. I want these files to be a specific size (ie not larger than 500Mb...

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Lakshay
Databricks Employee
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In addition to the solutions provided above, we can also control the behavior by specifying maximum records per file if we have a rough estimate of how many records should be written to a file to reach 500 MB size.df.write.option("maxRecordsPerFile",...

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kll
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AnalysisException : when attempting to save a spark DataFrame as delta table

I get an, `AnalysisException Failed to merge incompatible data types LongType and StringTypewhen attempting to run the below command, `df.write.format("delta").saveAsTable("schema.k_adhoc.df", mode="overwrite")` I am casting the column before saving:...

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Lakshay
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The issue seems to be because the job is trying to merge columns with different schema. Could you please make sure that the schema matches for the columns.

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alexisjohnson
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Resolved! Window function using last/last_value with PARTITION BY/ORDER BY has unexpected results

Hi, I'm wondering if this is the expected behavior when using last or last_value in a window function? I've written a query like this:select col1, col2, last_value(col2) over (partition by col1 order by col2) as column2_last from values ...

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Carv
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For those stumbling across this; it seems LAST_VALUE emulates the same functionality as it does in SQL Server which does not, in most people's minds, have a proper row/range frame for the window. You can adjust it with the below syntax.I understand l...

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Enzo_Bahrami
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Connect File Arrival Trigger to on-prem file server

Hello everyone!I was wondering if there is any way to connect File Arrival Trigger to an on-prem file server. Can I use JDBC or ODBC? will those connect to an on-prem file server (not a SQL server)Thank you

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File Arrival Trigger
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Volkan_Gumuskay
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Resolved! Is there a way to run a single or selected lines in a notebook?

Assume we have a given cellprint('A') print('B') print('C')I want to run only the below line.print('B')Obviously, I can seperate the cell into three and run the one I want, but this is timely. This is a feature I use so often (e.g. in pycharm) and wo...

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Tharun-Kumar
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@Volkan_Gumuskay This is also available as an option in the notebook run options.

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