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zyang
by Contributor II
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pyspark delta table schema evolution

I am using the schema evolution in the delta table and the code is written in databricks notebook. df.write .format("delta") .mode("append") .option("mergeSchema", "true") .partitionBy("date") .save(path)But I ...

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Noopur_Nigam
Databricks Employee
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Hi @z yang​ Please provide the df creation code as well to understand the complete exception and scenario.

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j02424
by Databricks Partner
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Best practice to delete /dbfs/tmp ?

What is best practice regarding the tmp folder? We have a very large amount of data in that folder and not sure whether to delete, back up etc?

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Debayan
Databricks Employee
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/dbfs/tmp can contain a lot of files including temporary system files used for intermediary calculations or other sub directories which can contain packages of user defined installations. It is always better to backup the files.

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Akshith_Rajesh
by New Contributor III
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Unable to write Data frame to Azure Synapse Table

When I am trying to insert records into the azure synapse Table using JDBC Its throwing below error com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The statement failed. Column 'COMPANY_ADDRESS_STATE' has a data type that cannot participate ...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Columns that use any of the following data types cannot be included in a columnstore index:nvarchar(max), varchar(max), and varbinary(max) (Applies to SQL Server 2016 and prior versions, and nonclustered columnstore indexes)so the issue is on the Azu...

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him
by New Contributor III
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Debayan
Databricks Employee
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You can try to refer the example below: https://docs.databricks.com/dev-tools/api/latest/examples.html#upload-a-big-file-into-dbfs

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Bharath_1610
by New Contributor
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Resolved! Check Existence of table

Hi Team,How do we check the existence of a table in ADF container using SQL query in Databricks?Thanks in advance.

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Noopur_Nigam
Databricks Employee
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Hi, please elaborate on the issue for us to help you resolve it.

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Mr__E
by Contributor II
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Sync prod WS DBs to dev WS DBs

We have a couple sources we'd already set up to stream to prod using a 3p system. Is there a way to sync this directly to our dev workspace to build pipelines? eg. directly connecting to a cluster in prod and pull with a job cluster, dump to S3 and u...

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Debayan
Databricks Employee
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DBFS can be used in many ways. Please refer below: Allows you to interact with object storage using directory and file semantics instead of cloud-specific API commands.Allows you to mount cloud object storage locations so that you can map storage cre...

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parthibsg
by New Contributor II
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When to use Dataframes API over Spark SQL

Hello Experts,I am new to Databricks. Building data pipelines, I have both batch and streaming data.Should I use Dataframes API to read csv files then convert to parquet format then do the transformation? orwrite to table using CSV then use Spark SQL...

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Debayan
Databricks Employee
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Hi Rathinam, It would be better to understand the pipeline more in this situation. Writing to table using CSV and then using spark SQL will be faster in few cases than the other one.

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lokeshr
by New Contributor
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Clarity on usage STREAM while defining DLT tables

Hi, I am currently trying to learn Databricks and going through tutorials and learning materials. I came across this link https://databricks.com/discover/pages/getting-started-with-delta-live-tablesWhile I get most of what is described in page, I fin...

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jose_gonzalez
Databricks Employee
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Hi @Lokesh Raju​,Just a friendly follow-up. Did Tomasz's response help you to resolved your question? If it did, please mark it as best.

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yatharthmahesh
by New Contributor III
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ENABLE CHANGE DATA FEED FOR EXISTING DELTA-TABLE

I have a delta table already created, now I want to enable the change data feed. I read that I have to set delta.enableChangeDataFeed property to true. But however, this cannot be done using the Scala API. I tried using this but it didn't work. I am ...

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Hubert-Dudek
Databricks MVP
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'delta.enableChangeDataFeed' have to be without quotes. spark.sql("ALTER TABLE delta_training.onaudience_dpm SET TBLPROPERTIES (delta.enableChangeDataFeed = true)").show()

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KumarShiv
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Databricks Spark SQL function "PERCENTILE_DISC()" output not accurate.

I am try to get the percentile values on different splits but I got that the result of Databricks PERCENTILE_DISC() function is not accurate . I have run the same query on MS SQL but getting different result set.Here are both result sets for Pyspark ...

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artsheiko
Databricks Employee
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The reason might be that in SQL PERCENTILE_DISC is nondeterministic

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Trung
by Contributor
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Job fail due to Access Denied

please help me to solve the problem that my data bricks account can not start the Job by triggering manually or scheduling although I can run the script without error.

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Vivian_Wilfred
Databricks Employee
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Hi @trung nguyen​ , Please check if you have the necessary instance profile attached to the Job cluster. You are definitely missing something related to the IAM.

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Anonymous
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Invalid shard address

I'm running pyspark through databricks-connect and getting an error saying```ERROR SparkClientManager: Fail to get the SparkClientjava.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.databricks.service.SparkServiceConnectionException: Invalid shard address:`...

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Prabakar
Databricks Employee
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hi @Marco Wong​ was this working before and failing now? Are you behind a VPN or firewall? If so can you check by disabling it?enable traces at wireshark and collected dump to check if there is traffic going to workspace?Check if you can get curl wor...

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krsimons
by New Contributor
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How do I automate my Databricks script?

How do I automate my Databricks script?

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Vartika
Databricks Employee
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Hey there @Kayla Simons​ Hope everything is going great.Just wanted to check in if you were able to resolve your issue. If yes, would you be happy to mark an answer as best so that other members can find the solution more quickly? If not, please tell...

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fshimamoto
by New Contributor III
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What are the best practices for schema drift using Delta Live tables, in a scenario where the main source is a no sql database and we have a lot of ch...

What are the best practices for schema drift using Delta Live tables, in a scenario where the main source is a no sql database and we have a lot of changes in the schema?​

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Vartika
Databricks Employee
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Hey there @Fernando Martin​ Hope all is well! Just wanted to check in if you were able to resolve your issue and would you be happy to share the solution or mark an answer as best? Else please let us know if you need more help. We'd love to hear from...

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RajeshRK
by Contributor II
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Databricks job fails while creating table.

Hi Team,The Databricks job fails with the below error while creating EXTERNAL table.com.simba.spark.jdbc41.internal.apache.http.wire - Error running query: MetaException(message:Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.fs.azure.AzureException com.microsoft.a...

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Vartika
Databricks Employee
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Hey there @Rajesh Kannan R​ Hope all is well! Just wanted to check in if you were able to resolve your issue and would you be happy to share the solution or mark an answer as best? Else please let us know if you need more help. We'd love to hear from...

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