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Spauk
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Resolved! Best Practices for naming Tables and Databases in Databricks

We moved in Databricks since few months from now, and before that we were in SQL Server.So, all our tables and databases follow the "camel case" rule.Apparently, in Databricks the rule is "lower case with underscore".Where can we find an official doc...

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LandanG
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Hi @Salah KHALFALLAH​ , looking at the documentation it appears that Databricks' preferred naming convention is lowercase and underscores as you mentioned.The reason for this is most likely because Databricks uses Hive Metastore, which is case insens...

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jonathan-dufaul
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Resolved! Why does chaining spark.read from one system/driver and .write to another system/driver take so much longer than doing each piece individually?

i am reading data from IBM DB2 and saving into a MS SQL server (the first step is moving the code itself to databricks, and then we will move the databases to databricks itself). Problem I'm running into is doing something like the below will take > ...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Hi, it is related to partitioning optimization. By default, the JDBC driver queries the source database with only a single thread. So write was from one partition as one partition was created, so it was using a single core. When you used pandas, it d...

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J15S
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RStudio on Databricks user experience

Is anybody actually using the RStudio app integration on Databricks? I'm surprised to find so little discussion in this forum. My team has been using it for about 3 months and it seems under-developed.1) No automated backup, you have to do it yoursel...

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J15S
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@Jonathan Dufault​ Thanks for the response, and glad I'm not alone. My problem (and this is probably just a preference thing) is that the 'reward' of using a full-fledged IDE is huge, compared to bouncing between notebooks in multiple tabs. The integ...

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Prototype998
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Singleton Design Principle for pyspark database connector A singleton is a design pattern that ensures that a class has only one instance, and provide...

Singleton Design Principle for pyspark database connectorA singleton is a design pattern that ensures that a class has only one instance, and provides a global access point to that instance. Here is an example of how you could implement a singleton d...

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Jfoxyyc
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How to use partial_parse.msgpack with workflow dbt task?

I'm looking for direction on how to get the dbt task in workflows to use the partial_parse.msgpack file to skip parsing files that haven't changed. I'm downloading my artifacts after each run and the partial_parse file is being saved back to adls.Wha...

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Debayan
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Hi, Could you please confirm what will be your expectation and the used case? Do you want the file to be saved somewhere else?

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KVNARK
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Resolved! Connecting azure synapse through data bricks note books

Hi All, Happy new year!how can we connect to azure synapse serverless sql pool through databricks notebooks and execute DDLs

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daniel_sahal
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@KVNARK .​ https://joeho.xyz/blog-posts/how-to-connect-to-azure-synapse-in-azure-databricks/

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APol
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Read/Write concurrency issue

Hi. I assume that it can be concurrency issue. (a Read thread from Databricks and a Write thread from another system)From the start:I read 12-16 csv files (approximately 250Mb each of them) to dataframe. df = spark.read.option("header", "False").opti...

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FerArribas
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Hi @Anastasiia Polianska​,I agree, it looks like a concurrency issue. Very possibly this concurrency problem will be caused by an erroneous ETAG in the HTTP call to the Azure Storage API (https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/blog/managing-concurrency-in...

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maddy_081063
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FerArribas
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Hi @maddy v​ ,I recommend that you use the Databricks SQL module for this type of reports and email alerts. It is a very interesting module with multiple options for your use case.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/user/dashboards...

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pvm26042000
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Spark SQL & Spark ML

I am using Spark SQL to import their data into a machine learning pipeline. Once data is imported I want performs machine learning tasks using Spark ML. So I should use what compute tools is best suited for this use case? Please help me!!! Thank you ...

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Debayan
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Hi, please refer https://docs.databricks.com/machine-learning/index.html, please let us know if this helps.

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pvm26042000
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I am using Spark SQL to import their data into a machine learning pipeline. Once data is imported I want performs machine learning tasks using Spark...

I am using Spark SQL to import their data into a machine learning pipeline. Once data is imported I want performs machine learning tasks using Spark ML. So I should use what compute tools is best suited for this use case? Please help me!!! Thank y...

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Debayan
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Hi, please refer https://docs.databricks.com/machine-learning/index.html, please let us know if this helps.

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vishallakha
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How to Enable Files in Repos in DBR 7.3 LTS ML ?

we need a custom version of a GPU cluster with following requirements for a certain project:Ubuntu 18.04Cuda 10.1.Tesla T4 GPU.Availability of /Workspace/Repos folder.All of these requirements are available with DBR ML 7.3 LTS. But one critical compo...

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Debayan
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Hi, To work with non-notebook files in Databricks Repos, you must be running Databricks Runtime 8.4 or above.https://docs.databricks.com/files/workspace.html#configure-support-for-workspace-files

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Azure_databric1
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How to find the road distance between two cities? We can use Azure databricks and azure map.

We will be given an excel file, in which we can see column sender_city and destination_city. We have to find the distance between these two cities and the distance calculated should be written in a column total_distance. All these processes should be...

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sher
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heywithout using latitude and longitude it is hard to find out but you can try some distance-based algorithm

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Benji0934
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Auto Loader: Empty fields (discovery_time, commit_time, archive_time) in cloud_files_state

Hi! Why are the fields discovery_time, commit_time, and archive_time NULL in cloud_files_state? Do I need to configure anything when creating my Auto Loader? df = spark.readStream.format("cloudFiles") \ .option("cloudFiles.format", "json") \ ...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Please be sure that the DBR version is 10.5 or highercommit_time and archive_time can be null but discovery_time is set even as NOT NULL in the table definition so it is a bit strange. Please change the DBR version first.

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Juhani
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Resolved! Bug in Delta Live Tables when missing files option?

When using Delta Live Tables with SQL-syntax ignoreMissingFiles-option is not working and you are getting error anyway.(See picture below)Link to feature: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/ingestion/auto-loader/options#generic-option...

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Hubert-Dudek
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You could also use inferSchema. ignoreMissingFiles option is to handle files that were accidentally deleted before being fully processed, so it has nothing related to the schema.

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