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DBUser2
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How to use transaction when connecting to Databricks using Simba ODBC driver

I'm connecting to a databricks instance using Simba ODBC driver(version 2.8.0.1002). And I am able to perform read and write on the delta tables. But if I want to do some INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations within a transaction, I get the below error, an...

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florence023
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@DBUser2 wrote:I'm connecting to a databricks instance using Simba ODBC driver(version 2.8.0.1002). And I am able to perform read and write on the delta tables. But if I want to do some INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations within a transaction, I get the ...

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FabriceDeseyn
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Resolved! What does autoloader's cloudfiles.backfillInterval do?

I'm using autoloader directory listing mode (without incremental file listing) and sometimes, new files are not picked up and found in the cloud_files-listing.I have found that using the 'cloudfiles.backfillInterval'-option can resolve the detection ...

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If we set the backfill to 1 week, will it run only 1ce a week or rather it will look for old files not processed in every trigger ?For eg :- if we set it to 1 day and the job runs every hour, then will it look for files in past 24 hours on a sliding ...

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jlanglois98
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Bootstrap timeout during cluster start

Hi all, I am getting the following error when I try to start a cluster in our Databricks workspace for east us 2:Bootstrap Timeout:Compute terminated. Reason: Bootstrap TimeoutHelpBootstrap Timeout. Please try again later. Instance bootstrap failed c...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @jlanglois98 ,Take a look at below thread. Similar issue:Solved: Re: Problem with spinning up a cluster on a new wo... - Databricks Community - 29996

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ajbush
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Connecting to Snowflake using an SSO user from Azure Databricks

Hi all,I'm just reaching out to see if anyone has information or can point me in a useful direction. I need to connect to Snowflake from Azure Databricks using the connector: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/external-data/snowflakeT...

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BobGeor_68322
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we ended up using device flow oauth because, as noted above, it is not possible to launch a browser on the Databricks cluster from a notebook so you cannot use "externalBrowser" flow. It gives you a url and a code and you open the url in a new tab an...

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biafch
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Resolved! Failure starting repl. Try detaching and re-attaching the notebook

I just started my manual cluster this morning in the production environment to run some code and it isn't executing and giving me the error "Failure starting repl. Try detaching and re-attaching the notebook.".What can I do to solve this?I have tried...

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biafch
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Just in case anyone needs to know how to solve this in the future.Apparently one of my clusters was suddenly having library compatibility issues. Mainly between pandas,numpy and pyarrow.So I fixed this by forcing specific versions in my global init s...

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biafch
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Resolved! Runtime 11.3 LTS not working in my production

Hello,I have a cluster with Runtime 11.3 LTS in my production. Whenever I start this up and try to run my notebooks it's giving me error: Failure starting repl. Try detaching and re-attaching the notebook. I have a cluster with the same Runtime in my...

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biafch
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Just in case anyone needs to know how to solve this in the future.Apparently one of my clusters was suddenly having library compatibility issues. Mainly between pandas,numpy and pyarrow.So I fixed this by forcing specific versions in my global init s...

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ImAbhishekTomar
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drop duplicate in 500B records

I’m trying to drop duplicate in a DF where I have 500B records I’m trying to delete  based on multiple columns but this process it’s takes 5h, I try lot of things that available on internet but nothing is works for me.my code is like this.df_1=spark....

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filipniziol
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Drop the duplicates from the df_1 and df_2 first and then do the join.If the join is just a city code, then most likely you know which rows in df_2 and in df_1 will give you the duplicates in df_join. So drop in df_1 and drop in df_2 instead of df_jo...

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eriodega
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Resolved! Escaping $ (dollar sign) in a regex backreference in notebook (so not seen as a parameter)

I am trying to do a regular expression replace in a Databricks notebook.The following query works fine in a regular query (i.e. not running it in a cell in a notebook):  select regexp_replace('abcd', '^(.+)c(.+)$', '$1_$2') --normally outputs ab_d  H...

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filipniziol
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Hi, just put a backslash before $ as an escape character: 

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geronimo_signol
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ISSUE: PySpark task exception handling on "Shared Compute" cluster

I am experiencing an issue with a PySpark job that behaves differently depending on the compute environment in Databricks. And this is blocking us from deploying the job into the PROD environment for our planned release.Specifically:- When running th...

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filipniziol
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Hi @geronimo_signol ,Recently, other user has reported similar behavior on shared clusters, and both issues seem to be related to Spark Connect.To verify whether your cluster is using Spark Connect, please run the following code in your notebook: pri...

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annetemplon
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Explaining the explain plan

Hi All,I am new to Databricks and have recently started exploring databricks' explain plans to try and understand how the queries are executed (and eventually tune them as needed).There are some things that I can somehow "guess" based on what I know ...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @annetemplon ,There are plenty of resources about this topic but they are scattered all over internet  I like below videos, pretty informative:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=99fYi2mopbshttps://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&u...

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s3
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Resolved! notebook for SFTP server connectivity without password.

I am trying to develop some script using python to access an sftp server without password and all valid public/private keys in a notebook. However I am not getting any such example. All examples has a password in it. Can I get some help?

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Atanu
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58562744/how-to-upload-text-file-to-ftp-from-databricks-notebook this example looks good to me. or may be try using data libs. https://www.cdata.com/kb/tech/sftp-jdbc-azure-databricks.rst

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maafsl
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Vulnerability in the Guava dependency of the Databricks jdbc driver

Good afternoon I want to report that the JDBC driver incorporates a version of com.google.guava:guava that has two vulnerabilities. Image attached. Could the dependency be updated?

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maafsl
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Dnirmania
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Resolved! Dynamic Python UDF in unity catalog

Hi Team I am trying to create a python UDF which I want to use for column masking. This function will take 2 input parameters(column name and groups name) and return the column value if user is part of group otherwise return masked value. I wrote fol...

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menotron
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Hi @Dnirmania, You could achieve something similar using this UDF:%sql CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ryanlakehouse.default.column_masking(column_value STRING, groups_str String) RETURNS STRING LANGUAGE SQL COMMENT 'Return the column value if use...

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mvmiller
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Workflow file arrival trigger - does it apply to overwritten files?

I am exploring the use of the "file arrival" trigger for a workflow for a use case I am working on.  I understand from the documentation that it checks every minute for new files in an external location, then initiates the workflow when it detects a ...

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Rajani
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Hi @mvmiller The  "file arrival" trigger for a workflow considers the name of the file,when the same name file was overwritten the workflow didnt triggerred.hope I answered your question! 

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MikeGo
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One worker is one executor and one physical node

Hi team,Seems in Databricks, instead of like running Spark jobs on a k8s cluster, when a workflow running on a Job Compute/Cluster or instance pool, one physical node can only have one executor. Is this understanding right? If that is true, that mean...

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-werners-
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It can change the number of executors dynamically if I am not mistaken.But maybe Databricks has hammered the 1-1 ratio in stone, something to test I'd say.

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