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TomDeas
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Resolved! Resource Throttling; Large Merge Operation - Recent Engine Change?

Morning all, hope you can help as I've been stumped for weeks.Question: have there been recent changes to the Databricks query engine, or Photon (etc) which may impact large sort operations?I have a Jobs pipeline that runs a series of notebooks which...

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mark_ott
Databricks Employee
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There have indeed been recent changes to the Databricks query engine and Photon, especially during the June 2025 platform releases, which may influence how large sort operations and resource allocation are handled in SQL pipelines similar to yours. S...

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Coffee77
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Resolved! Databricks Asset Bundles - High Level Diagrams Flow

Hi guys!Working recently in fully understanding (and helping others...) Databricks Asset Bundles (DAB) and having fun creating some diagrams with DAB flow at high level. First one contains flow with a simple deployment in PROD and second one contains...

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Coffee77
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I will go only with latest version then , that can be applied to any other lower environment for QA or testing.

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QuanSun
by New Contributor II
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How to select performance mode for Databricks Delta Live Tables

Hi everyone,Based on the official link,For triggered pipelines, you can select the serverless compute performance mode using the Performance optimized setting in the pipeline scheduler. When this setting is disabled, the pipeline uses standard perfor...

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mimimon
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May I know if this was automatically on through all DLT tables? How do we monitor timestamp of turning this on and off and the id who did it? Or is automatically configured?

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Anonymous
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Resolved! data frame takes unusually long time to write for small data sets

We have configured workspace with own vpc. We need to extract data from DB2 and write as delta format. we tried to for 550k records with 230 columns, it took 50mins to complete the task. 15mn records takes more than 18hrs. Not sure why this takes suc...

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Sown7
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facing same issue - I have ~ 700 k rows and I am trying to write this table but it takes forever to write. Previously one time it took only like 5 sec to write but after that whenever we update the analysis and rewrite the table it takes very long an...

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saicharandeepb
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Looking for Suggestions: Designed a Decision Tree to Recommend Optimal VM Types for Workloads

Hi everyone!I recently designed a decision tree model to help recommend the most suitable VM types for different kinds of workloads in Databricks. Thought Process Behind the Design:Determining the optimal virtual machine (VM) for a workload is heavil...

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Coffee77
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It looks interesting and I'll take a deeper loop! At first sight, as a suggestion I would include a new decision node to conditionally include VMs ready to "delta cache acceleration" or now "disk caching". These VMs have local SSD volumes so that the...

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RobsonNLPT
by Contributor III
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Databricks Rest API Statement Execution - External Links

Hi.I've tested the adb Rest Api to execute queries on databricks sql serverless. Using INLINE as disposition I have the json array with my correct results but using EXTERNAL_LINKS I have the chunks but the external_link (URL starting with http://stor...

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mark_ott
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The issue you're experiencing with Databricks SQL Serverless REST API in EXTERNAL_LINKS mode—where the external_link URL (http://storage-proxy.databricks.com/...) does not work, but you can access chunks directly via the /api/2.0/sql/statements/{stat...

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rbee
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Connect to Sql server analysis services(SSAS) server to run DAX query using python

Hi, I have a powerbi server which I'm able to connect through SSMS. I tried using pyodbc to connect to same in databricks, but it is throwing below error.OperationalError: ('HYT00', '[HYT00] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server]Login timeout exp...

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mark_ott
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Your understanding is correct: Power BI’s data model is stored in an Analysis Services (SSAS) engine, not a traditional SQL Server database. This means that while SSMS may connect to Power BI Premium datasets via XMLA endpoints, attempting to use pyo...

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RobsonNLPT
by Contributor III
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Connection timeout when connecting to MongoDB using MongoDB Connector for Spark 10.x

Hi.I'm testing a databricks connection to a mongo cluster V7 (azure cluster) using the library org.mongodb.spark:mongo-spark-connector_2.13:10.4.1I can connect using compass but I get a timeout error using my adb notebookMongoTimeoutException: Timed ...

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mark_ott
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The error you’re seeing — MongoTimeoutException referencing localhost:27017 â€” suggests your Databricks cluster is trying to connect to MongoDB using the wrong address or that it cannot properly reach the MongoDB cluster endpoint from the notebook, ev...

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kertsman_nm
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Trying to use Broadcast to run Presidio distrubuted

Hello,I am currently evaluating using Microsoft's Presidio de-identification libraries for my organization and would like to see if we can take advantage to Sparks broadcast capabilities, but I am getting an error message:"[BROADCAST_VARIABLE_NOT_LOA...

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mark_ott
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You’re encountering the [BROADCAST_VARIABLE_NOT_LOADED] error because Databricks in shared access mode cannot use broadcast variables with non-serializable Python objects (such as your Presidio engines) due to cluster architecture limitations. The cl...

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Schema change and OpenSearch

Let me be crystal clear: Schema Change and OpenSeach do not fit well together. However, the data pushed to it are processed and always have the same schema. The problem here is that Spark is reading a CDC feed, which is subject to Schema Change becau...

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mark_ott
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You are encountering a common issue in Databricks Delta Lake streaming when working with Change Data Capture (CDC) feeds: schema evolution, especially with column mapping enabled, is not fully supported automatically in streaming reads—that includes ...

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van45678
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Getting connection reset issue while connecting to a SQL server

Hello All,I am unable to connect to a SQL server instance that is installed in a on-premise network from databricks. I am able to successfully ping the server from the notebook using this command [nc -vz <hostname> <port>]  which means I am able to e...

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mark_ott
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The error you are encountering, "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: Connection reset," even after a successful nc (netcat) connection, is a common but nuanced problem when connecting Databricks to an on-premise SQL Server. Although your...

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meghana_tulla
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Issue: UCX Assessment Installation Error in Databricks Automation Script

Hi I'm experiencing a problem when installing UCX Assessment through an automation script in Databricks. The script fails with this error:13:38:06 WARNING [databricks.labs.ucx.hive_metastore.tables] {listing_tables_0} failed-table-crawl: listing tabl...

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mark_ott
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The manual installation of UCX Assessment in Databricks works with the default <ALL> values, but automation scripts that set WORKSPACE_GROUPS="<ALL>" DATABASES="<ALL>" often encounter a SCHEMA_NOT_FOUND error related to 'ALL' not being recognized as ...

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aav331
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Resolved! Unable to install libraries from requirements.txt in a Serverless Job and spark_python_task

I am running into the following error while trying to deploy a serverless job running a spark_python_task with GIT as the source for the code. The Job was deployed as part of a DAB from a Github Actions Runner.Run failed with error message Library i...

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Louis_Frolio
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@aav331 , if you are happy with the result please "Accept as Solution." This will help others who may be in the same boat. Cheers, Louis.

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carlos_tasayco
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DATABRICKS CLI SYNC SPECIFIC FILES

Hello,I am struggling with this problem I need to update databricks repo, to only sync some files according to documentation is possible:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dev-tools/cli/sync-commands#only-sync-specific-filesIn my work...

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mark_ott
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You are trying to use the --include-from option with your .gitignore file to only sync specific files with the databricks sync command, but you are observing that all files get synced, not just the expected ones. The key issue is how the include/excl...

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Vetrivel
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Federate AWS Cloudwatch logs to Databricks Unity Catalog

I am looking to integrate CloudWatch logs with Databricks. Our objective is not to monitor Databricks via CloudWatch, but rather to facilitate access to CloudWatch logs from within Databricks. If anyone has implemented a similar solution, kindly prov...

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mark_ott
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To access CloudWatch logs from within Databricks, you can set up an integration that enables Databricks to fetch, query, and analyze AWS CloudWatch log data directly—without configuring CloudWatch to monitor Databricks clusters. This approach is incr...

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