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User16835756816
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How can I optimize my data pipeline?

Delta Lake provides optimizations that can help you accelerate your data lake operations. Here’s how you can improve query speed by optimizing the layout of data in storage.There are two ways you can optimize your data pipeline: 1) Notebook Optimizat...

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Hubert-Dudek
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some tips from me:Look for data skews; some partitions can be huge, some small because of incorrect partitioning. You can use Spark UI to do that but also debug your code a bit (get getNumPartitions()), especially SQL can divide it unequally to parti...

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Arun_Kumar
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List of Databricks tables created by a user

Hi team,​Could you please confirm below clarifications1. How can we get the list of tables created by a user in particular workspace?2. How can we get the list of tables created by user from multiple workspaces? ( Same user has access to 10 workspace...

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ashish1
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Hi Arun, hope your query is answered. Please select the best answer or let us know if any further questions.

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AndriusVitkausk
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Reading multi-dimensional json files

So I've been having some issues reading a json file that's been provided to the business with another nesting layer, so instead of a json being an:'array of objects' -> [ {} ,{} ,{} ] It's an 'array of arrays of objects' -> [ [ {}, {} ,{} ], [ {} ,{}...

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ashish1
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You can use the explode function to flatten the array to rows, can you post a simple example of your data?

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LavaLiah_85929
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"desc history" shows versions older than the default logRetentionDuration of 30 days

I have a cdc enabled table where no data changes were made since July 28. Then updates started occurring from November 22 onwards. The first checkpoint occurred on Nov 28. Based on the corresponding timestamp of checkpoint and log files, it looks lik...

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shyam_9
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Hi @Laval Liahkim​, could you please try running the VACUUM with 30 days retention?Please confirm when you last run the cmd with the 30-day retention period. Also, when you created this table and do you see old data files were deleted?Also, when disk...

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espenol
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How to debug Workflow Jobs timing out and DLT pipelines running forever?

So I'm the designated data engineer for a proof of concept we're running, I'm working with one infrastructure guy who's setting up everything in Terraform (company policy). He's got the setup down for Databricks so we can configure clusters and run n...

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shan_chandra
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@Espen Solvang​ - Just thought of checking with you, could you please let us know if you require further assistance on this?

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nimble
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How can I run a streaming query on a new table with tbl property: change data feed enabled?

In Databricks on AWS, I am trying to run a streaming query (trigger=Once) with delta.enableChangeDataFeed=true in the table definition as instructed, but this always fails with :ERROR: Some streams terminated before this command could finish!   com.d...

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swethaNandan
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Hi @daniel e​ Can you try running the select command on table changes from 0th version and see if you get output?SELECT * FROM table_changes('tableName', 0)Also, Please share the streaming query that you are running.

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Raghu_Bindingan
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Truncate delta live table and try to repopulate it in the pipeline

Has anyone attempted to truncate a delta live gold level table that gets populated via a pipeline and then tried to repopulate it by starting the pipeline. I have this situation wherein i need to reprocess all data in my gold table, so i stopped the ...

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Rajeev45
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Please can you confirm if the job is still failing with the same error even after “FULL REFRESH ALL” option? If so please share the full stack trace and is it failing in any of the below steps?Creating updateWaiting for resourcesInitializingResetting...

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DevOps88
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Does exist the ability to run jobs with integration tests from the Databricks interface?

Currently, Nutter could be run inside a common CI/CD pipeline from GitLab, but need the possibility to run jobs with integration tests from the Databricks interface.How to use Nutter directly from Databricks?Does exist any integration test examples a...

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jose_gonzalez
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Hi @Dmitrii Kalashnikov​,You could find examples and more details here https://github.com/alexott/databricks-nutter-repos-demo

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Trodenn
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Resolved! ApprodxQuantile does not seem to be working with delta live tables (DLT)

HI,I am tying to use the approxQuantile() function and populate a list that I made, yet somehow, whenever I try to run the code it's as if the list is empty and there are no values in it.Code is written as below:@dlt.table(name = "customer_order_silv...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Maybe try to use (and the first test in the separate notebook) standard df = spark.read.table("customer_order_silver") to calculate approxQuantile.Of course, you need to set that customer_order_silver has a target location in the catalog, so read us...

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guru1
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Resolved! facing issue mentioned in body when connecting event hub with databricks , followed earlier discussion on this but no solution

ERROR: Query termination received for [id=37bada03-131b-4fbb-8992-a427263fef2c, runId=cf3d7c18-780e-43ae-aed0-9daf2939b823], with exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Input byte array has wrong 4-byte ending unit at java.util.Base64$Decoder...

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Annapurna_Hiriy
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The issue could be due to the mismatch in the eventHub jar and the dependencies added. Also, not all the required dependencies may be added.Suggestions:Using the azure_eventhubs_spark_2_12_.jar eventHub spark jar along with the following dependencies...

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ravinchi
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I'd like to ingest data into my ADLS from sql server in an incremental manner using Delta Live Tables.

I'd like to ingest data into my ADLS from sql server in an incremental manner using Delta Live Tables. I do not want to use any staging tables. I was using CDC, While I call dlt.apply_changes, its asking me to specify source and target. SInce source ...

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Sandeep
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If you have a CDC feed, looks like we can use this: https://docs.databricks.com/workflows/delta-live-tables/delta-live-tables-cdc.html

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nagini_sitarama
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Error while optimizing the table . Failure of InSet.sql for UTF8String collection

count of the table : 1125089 for october month data , So I am optimizing the table. optimize table where batchday >="2022-10-01" and batchday<="2022-10-31"I am getting error like : GC overhead limit exceeded    at org.apache.spark.unsafe.types.UTF8St...

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Priyanka_Biswas
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Hi @Nagini Sitaraman​ To understand the issue better I would like to get some more information. Does the error occur at the driver side or executor side? Can you please share the full error stack trace? You may need to check the spark UI to find wher...

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Aviral-Bhardwaj
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Understanding Rename in Databricks Now there are multiple ways to rename Spark Data Frame Columns or Expressions. We can rename columns or expressions...

Understanding Rename in DatabricksNow there are multiple ways to rename Spark Data Frame Columns or Expressions.We can rename columns or expressions using alias as part of selectWe can add or rename columns or expressions using withColumn on top of t...

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Ajay-Pandey
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Very informative, Thanks for sharing

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AlexDavies
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Issue connecting to SQL warehouse spark thrift server

we have a library that allows dotnet applications to talk to databricks clusters (https://github.com/clearbank/SparkSqlClient). This communicates with the clusters over the spark thrift serverAlthough this works great for clusters in the "data scienc...

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AlexDavies
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I have tried those connection details however it they give me 400 errors when trying to connect directly using the hive thrift server contract (https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/service-rpc/if/TCLIService.thrift). I do not get the issues whe...

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cristianc
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Unexpected workspace setup dialog in the account

Greetings,Recently we were doing cleanups in AWS and removed some Databricks related resources that were used only once for setting up our workspace and were not used since then.Since there is no plan to create any other workspaces the decision was t...

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cristianc
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The resources that were cleaned up were just the ones that were used for the initial setup of the workspace, everything else important for the day to day operation are in place and we are actively using the workspace, therefore there is no plan to de...

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