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Isa1
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Moving existing Delta Live Table to Asset Bundle

Hi!I am creating an Asset Bundle, which also includes my streaming Delta Live Table Pipelines. I want to move these DLT pipelines to the Asset Bundle, without having to run my DLT streaming Pipeline on all historical files (this takes a lot of comput...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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When you change the path to the notebook or the name of the pipeline in your Delta Live Table (DLT) pipeline, it can indeed cause issues. Specifically, changing the path to the notebook or the name of the pipeline can lead to the recreation of the pi...

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shadowinc
by New Contributor III
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Delete Partition Folders

Hello team, as DataBricks moved away from hive-style partitioning, we can see some 2-letter partition folders created. And I have observed that the vacuum doesn't delete these folders (even though they are empty). Is there any way to delete those usi...

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Alberto_Umana
Databricks Employee
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Hello @shadowinc, VACUUM is used to clean up unused and stale data files that are no longer referenced by a Delta table and are older than a specified retention period (default is 7 days). It does not remove empty directories. I think manual cleanup ...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Resolved! Optimize and Vacuum - which is the best order of operations?

Optimize -> VacuumorVacuum -> Optimize

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shadowinc
New Contributor III
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What about ReOrg delta table https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/language-manual/delta-reorg-tableDoes it help or make sense to add Re-org then Optimize - Vacuum every week?Reorganize a Delta Lake table by rewriting files to purge ...

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ayush19
by New Contributor III
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Running a jar on Databricks shared cluster using Airflow

Hello,I have a requirement to run a jar already installed on a Databricks cluster. It needs to be orchestrated using Apache Airflow. I followed the docs for the operator which can be used to do so https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-provid...

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Alberto_Umana
Databricks Employee
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Hello @ayush19, Here are some suggestions, but would need to check how are the parameters configured. Use an Existing Cluster: Instead of creating a new cluster each time, configure the DatabricksSubmitRunOperator to use an existing cluster. This can...

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mjedy7
by New Contributor II
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Reading two big tables within each forEachBatch processing method

I am reading changes from the cdf with availableOnce=True, processing data from checkpoint to checkpoint. During each batch, I perform transformations, but I also need to read two large tables and one small table. Does Spark read these tables from sc...

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radothede
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Hi @mjedy7 for cacheing in this scenario You could try to levarage persist() and unpersist() for the big table/ spark dataframe, see here:https://medium.com/@eloutmadiabderrahim/persist-vs-unpersist-in-spark-485694f72452Try to reduce the amount of da...

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hk-modi
by New Contributor
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Switching to autoloader

I have an S3 bucket that has continuous data being written into it. My script reads these files, parses them and then appends into a delta table. The data backs to 2022 with millions of files which are stored using partitions based on year/month/dayO...

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radothede
Valued Contributor II
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hi @hk-modi As I understand correctly, You have an existing delta table with tons of data already processed. You want to switch to autoloader, read files, parse them and process data incrementally to that delta table as a sink. The task is to start p...

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lauraxyz
by Contributor
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Resolved! Rendering Volumes file content programmatically

Hi there!I have some files stored in Volume, and I have a use case that I need to show the file content in a UI.  Say I have a REST API that already knows the Volume path to the file, is there any built-in feature from Databricks that i can use to he...

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cgrant
Databricks Employee
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Hi @lauraxyz, the files API should be helpful, particularly the upload endpoint.

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NehaR
by New Contributor III
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Cost estimation before query execution similar to google cloud Big Query equivalent of --dry_run

Hi , In databricks do we have a option to estimate cost of query before execution which is similar to Big Query equivalent of --dry_run.Our use case is to estimate cost before execution and get alerted. RegardsNeha   

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Alberto_Umana
Databricks Employee
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Hello @NehaR, Currently, Databricks does not have a direct equivalent to BigQuery's --dry_run feature for estimating the cost of a query before execution. However, there are some mechanisms and ongoing projects that aim to provide similar functionali...

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Shivam_Pawar
by New Contributor III
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Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals Badge

I have successfully passed the test after completion of the course with 95%. But I have'nt recieved any badge from your side as promised. I have been provided with a certificate which looks fake by itself. I need to post my credentials on Linkedin wi...

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heybeckerj
New Contributor II
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Any feedback on this please? 

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deecee
by Databricks Partner
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SAS token issue for long running micro-batches

Hi everyone,I'm having an issue with some of our Databricks workloads. We're processing these workloads using the forEachBatch stream processing method. Whenever we are performing a full reload on some of our datasources, we get the following error. ...

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Unity Catalog
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VZLA
Databricks Employee
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@deecee  Can you please confirm there are no external locations or volumes which can lead to this overlap of locations? what you actually have in "some_catalog.some_schema.some_table" and the "abfss://some-container@somestorageaccount.dfs.core.window...

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kalebkemp
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FileReadException error when creating materialized view reading two schemas

Hi all. I'm getting an error `com.databricks.sql.io.FileReadException` when attempting to create a materialized view which reads tables from two different schemas in the same catalog. Is this just a limitation in databricks or do I potentially have s...

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agallard
Contributor
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Hi @kalebkemp ,The error you're encountering (com.databricks.sql.io.FileReadException) when creating a materialized view that reads from two different schemas in the same catalog might not necessarily be a Databricks limitation. It is more likely rel...

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zmsoft
by Contributor
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Azure Synapse vs Databricks

Hi there,I would like to know the difference between Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse, which use case is Databricks appropriate and which use case is Synapse appropriate? What are the differences in their functions? What are the differences in thei...

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thelogicplus
Contributor III
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share you use case i will suggest you about technology difference and which could be benefical for you. I love Data brick due to many awesome feature that help sql developer to programmer(python/Scala) to solve the use case on DataBricks. but if you ...

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Pradeep_Namani
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Getting Different results when I am running the Global Templary table (Transform Query)

We are running a logic in an Azure Databricks notebook using Python with Spark. Initially, we read data from ADLS and load it into a global temporary table to perform data quality checks. We then recreate the same temporary table. Afterward, we use t...

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Pradeep_Namani
New Contributor III
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The script is too large to paste in here, so please get in touch with me to to obtain it.

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sanjay
by Valued Contributor II
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Resolved! How to limit number of files in each batch in streaming batch processing

Hi,I am running batch job which processes incoming files. I am trying to limit number of files in each batch process so added maxFilesPerTrigger option. But its not working. It processes all incoming files at once.(spark.readStream.format("delta").lo...

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mjedy7
New Contributor II
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Hi @Sandeep ,Can we usespark.readStream.format("delta").option(""maxBytesPerTrigger", "50G").load(silver_path).writeStream.option("checkpointLocation", gold_checkpoint_path).trigger(availableNow=True).foreachBatch(foreachBatchFunction).start() 

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Jefke
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Cloud_files function

Hi I'm fairly new to to Databricks and in some examples, blogs,... I see the cloud_files() function being used. But I'm always unable to find any documentation on it? Is there any reason for this? And what is the exact use case for the function? Most...

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JissMathew
Valued Contributor
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Hi @Jefke ,The cloud_files() function in Databricks is part of the Databricks Auto Loader, a tool used for incremental data ingestion from cloud storage like Azure Blob Storage, Amazon S3, or Google Cloud Storage. This function is specifically optimi...

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