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MoJaMa
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Databricks does not charge DBUs while instances are idle in the pool. Instance provider billing does apply.Please refer here for more information - https://docs.databricks.com/clusters/instance-pools/index.html

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brickster_2018
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Resolved! Best ways to copy the parquet files in the staging directory to the Delta table

I have some parquet data in a temporary directory. Can I copy them into the delta table directly, what are the best options.

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brickster_2018
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The easiest solution is to use the COPY INTO command. The COPY INTO command ensures idempotency, so even if the operation fails there are no data inconsistencies. COPY INTO command utilizes the resources on the Spark cluster hence completes faster. h...

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brickster_2018
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Resolved! Unable to download the files from the notebook UI

I used to download the SQL query output from the Notebook UI. but right now I am unable to download files now

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brickster_2018
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This is a workspace-level configuration. Probably your workspace admin disabled it. If you have admin privilege on your workspace you can enable it from the Admin Console -> Workspace Settings

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User16826994223
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MSCK REPAIR TABLE doesn't work in delta

I have a delta table in adls and for the same table, I have defined an external table in hive After creating the hive table and generating manifests, I am loading the partitions using MSCK REPAIR TABLE. All the partition columns are in same But s...

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User16826994223
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Can you please check partition column order, does it in same sequence as before or it has changed

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brickster_2018
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Resolved! I can't find my cluster

I had a cluster that I used in the past. I do not see the cluster any longer. I checked with the admin and my team and everyone confirmed that there no user deletion. 

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brickster_2018
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If the cluster is unsued for 30 days, Databricks removes the cluster. This is a general clean-up policy. It's possible to whitelist a cluster from this clean-up by Pinning the cluster. https://docs.databricks.com/clusters/clusters-manage.html#pin-a-c...

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User16826994223
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Resolved! Delta adds a new partition making the old partition unreadable

  In Notebook, My code read and write the data to delta , My delta is partitioned by calendar_date. After the initial load i am able to read the delta file and look the data just fine.But after the second load for data for 6 month , the previous part...

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User16826994223
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I think you are writing the data in override mode. what happens in delta is it doesn't delete the data for certain days even it is written by overwrite mode for versioning , and you will be able to query only most recent data,But in format parque...

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brickster_2018
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Resolved! Additional permission for Delta compared to Parquet

I am trying to create a Delta table and it seems the Delta table requires additional permissions on the parent folder of the table. The command failed telling permission errors. I tried to create a parquet table and it works fine. 

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brickster_2018
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Delta table is the non-hive compatible format. So there must also be permissions for a client to access the path to the database’s location so that it can create a new temporary “directory” there. This comes from Spark SQL’s handling of external tabl...

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brickster_2018
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Resolved! How many active connections are made to Hive metastore

We are using an internal metastore implementation. ie the metastore is hosted at the Dataricks side. However, we believe the metastore instance made available for my workspace is not adequate enough to handle the load. How can I monitor the number of...

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brickster_2018
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Use the below code snippet from a notebook%scala import java.sql.Connection import java.sql.DriverManager import java.sql.ResultSet import java.sql.SQLException   /** * For details on what this query means, checkout https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refma...

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User16826992666
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Resolved! Does Databricks integrate with Immuta?

My company uses Immuta for data governance. Will Databricks be able to fit into our existing security patterns?

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Ryan_Chynoweth
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Yes, check out the immuta web page on the Databricks Integration. https://www.immuta.com/integrations/databricks

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brickster_2018
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Resolved! Compute cost for the SQL Analytics query

Is there a way to get some kind of compute the cost associated with every SQL analytics query?

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brickster_2018
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Right now, we do not have an option to measure the compute cost at a query level.

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User16765131552
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docs.databricks.com

Best practices: Cluster configuration | Databricks on AWSLearn best practices when creating and configuring Databricks clusters.https://docs.databricks.com/clusters/cluster-config-best-practices.html

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User16765131552
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docs.gcp.databricks.com

Best practices | Databricks on Google CloudLearn best practices when using or administering Databricks.https://docs.gcp.databricks.com/best-practices-index.html

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User16765131552
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docs.microsoft.com

Best practices - Azure DatabricksLearn best practices when using or administering Azure Databricks.https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/best-practices-index

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User16765131552
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docs.databricks.com

Best practices | Databricks on AWSLearn best practices when using or administering Databricks.https://docs.databricks.com/best-practices-index.html

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User16826994223
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Resolved! How to prevent Delta Lake checkpoints to be removed in Databricks?

I am seeing with new commits the old checkpoints are getting removed and i can time travel only last 10 versions , Is there any way I can prevent it so that delat checkpoints are not removed I'm using Azure Databricks 7.3 LTS ML.

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If you want to keep your checkpoints X days, you can set delta.checkpointRetentionDuration to X days this way:spark.sql(f""" ALTER TABLE delta.`path` SET TBLPROPERTIES ( delta.checkpointRetentionDuration = 'X days'...

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