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turagittech
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Resolved! Schema updating with CI/CD development in SQL

Hi all,I am working to resolve how to build tables in a development workspace catalog and then easily migrate the code to a production catalog without manually altering the schema name. For those unaware, you can't have the same catalog names in deve...

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evanc
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I will like to see an example from databricks that how will alembic and databricks works together, especially with schema evo. I think once schema got changed by schema evo, the alembic version not valid anymore. Wondering how to handle it properly. ...

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petitregny
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Reading from an S3 bucket using boto3 on serverless cluster

Hello All,I am trying to read a CSV file from my S3 bucket in a notebook running on serverless.I am using the two standard functions below, but I get a credentials error (Error reading CSV from S3: Unable to locate credentials).I don't have this issu...

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Ramana
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Boto3 with Access/Secret Key worked. I will try the Service Credentials.  If Databricks Documentation is right, Instance Profiles with Serverless should work to establish Boto3 connection, but, unfortunately, setting up instance profiles on Serverles...

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shubham007
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Urgency: Getting Lakebridge installation failed in our organization environment (laptop)

Dear community expert,I’m reaching out for assistance with installing Databricks Lakebridge on my organization laptop. I have confirmed the stated prerequisites are installed: Java 22+, Python 3.11+, and the latest Databricks CLI, but the installer f...

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WiliamRosa
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Additionally, you can check the following documentation and links that I found, which may help you:1) To view the available Python versions and guidance on using a virtual environment (virtualenv or conda):https://www.piwheels.org/project/databricks-...

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lecarusin
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Help regarding a python notebook and s3 file structure

Hello all, I am new to this forum, so please forgive if I am posting in the wrong location (I'd appreciate if the post is moved by mods or am told where to post).I am looking for help with an optimization of a python code I have. This python notebook...

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arunpalanoor
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I am not sure if I fully understand how your data pipeline is setup, but have you considered incremental data loading say using something similar to "COPY INTO" method which would only read your incremental load, and then apply a 90 day filter on top...

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Akshay_Petkar
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Advanced Data Engineering Event and Free Certification Voucher

Hi everyone,In the past couple of years, Databricks has organized an Advanced Data Engineering event where attendees received a 100% free certification voucher under their organization account after attending the session.I wanted to check if this eve...

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bianca_unifeye
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I’m only aware of the Databricks Learning Festival, which typically offers a 50% discount voucher for certification, rather than a full-voucher.I couldn’t find any official confirmation of a 100% free voucher for an “Advanced Data Engineering” event ...

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vikram_p
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Generate embeddings for 50 million rows in dataframe

Hello All,I have dataframe with 5 million rows and before we can setup vector search endpoint against index, we want to generate embeddings column for each of those rows. Please suggest whats an optimal way to do this?We are in development phase so w...

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bianca_unifeye
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The easiest and most reliable way to generate embeddings for millions of rows is to let Databricks Vector Search compute them automatically during synchronization from a Delta table.Vector Search can generate embeddings for you, keep them updated whe...

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Divya_Bhadauria
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Does Databricks Runtime 7.3+ include built-in Hadoop S3 connector configurations?

I came across the KB article S3 connection reset error, which mentions not using the following Spark settings for the Hadoop S3 connector for DBR 7.3 and above:spark.hadoop.fs.s3.impl com.databricks.s3a.S3AFileSystem spark.hadoop.fs.s3n.impl com.data...

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hasnat_unifeye
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No, you don’t need to set those on DBR 7.3 and above.From 7.3+ Databricks already uses the newer Hadoop S3A connector by default, so those com.databricks.s3a.S3AFileSystem settings are not part of the default config and shouldn’t be added.If they are...

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Surya-Prathap
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Output Not Displaying in Databricks Notebook on All-Purpose Compute Cluster

Hello All,I’m encountering an issue where output from standard Python commands such as print() or display(df) is not showing up correctly when running notebooks on an All-Purpose Compute cluster.Cluster DetailsCluster Type: All-Purpose ComputeRuntime...

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Sahil_Kumar
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Hi Surya, Do you face this issue only with DBR 17.3 all-purpose clusters? Did you try with lower DBRs? If not, please try and let me know. Also, from the Run menu, try “Clear state and outputs,” then re‑run the cell on the same cluster to rule out st...

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spd_dat
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Can you default to `execution-count: none` when stripping notebook outputs?

When committing to a git folder, IPYNB outputs are usually stripped, unless allowed by an admin setting and toggled by .databricks/commit_outputs. This sets the{"execution-count": 0, ... }within the IPYNB metadata. Is there a way to set it instead to...

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mark_ott
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Databricks does not currently allow you to default to "execution_count": null (or "none") when stripping notebook outputs during a commit. The platform sets "execution_count": 0 as the default when outputs are stripped through their Git integration, ...

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ayush667787878
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not able to install library in normal site while in community version it working please help

I am not able to install library in normal version while in community editioin i am able to add libray using compute how to install in normal databricks same as community edition.   

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mark_ott
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To install libraries in the normal (paid) version of Databricks, use the cluster management interface to add libraries to your compute resources. The process is similar to the Community Edition, but workspace policies and cluster access mode may rest...

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ask005
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How to write ObjectId value using Spark connector 10.2.2

In pySpark mongo connector while updating records how to handle _id as objectId.spark 3.2.4scala2.13sparkMongoConnector 2.12-10.2.2

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mark_ott
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To write an ObjectId value using Spark Mongo Connector 10.2.2 in PySpark while updating records, you must convert the ObjectId string into a special format. The Spark Mongo Connector does not automatically recognize a string as an ObjectId; it will o...

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dndeng
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Query to calculate cost of task from each job by day

I am trying to find the cost per Task in each Job every time it was executed (daily) but currently getting very huge numbers due to duplicates, can someone help me ?   WITH workspace AS ( SELECT account_id, workspace_id, workspace_name,...

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mark_ott
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You are seeing inflated cost numbers because your query groups by many columns—especially run_id, task_key, usage_start_time, and usage_end_time—without addressing possible duplicate row entries that arise from your joins, especially with the system....

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lmorrissey
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GC Allocation Failure

There are a couple of related posts here and here.Seeing a similar issue with a long running job. Processes are in a "RUNNING" state, cluster is active, but stdout log shows the dreaded GC Allocation Failure. Env:I've set the following on the config:...

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mark_ott
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A persistent "GC Allocation Failure" in Spark jobs, where processes are stuck in the RUNNING state even after attempts to clear cache and enforce GC, typically indicates ongoing memory pressure, possible data skew, or excessive memory use on the driv...

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itt
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Graceful shutdown - stopping stream at the end of microbatch

Im trying to create a system where i let spark finish the current microbatch, and letting it know it should stop after it.The reason is that i don't want to re-calcualte a microbatch with "forcefully" stopping a stream.Is there a way spark/databricks...

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mark_ott
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There is no built-in Spark or Databricks method to gracefully stop a Structured Streaming query specifically at the end of the current microbatch, but several community and expert discussions propose common strategies to achieve this: Official and Co...

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