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bciampa
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Unable to infer schema for Parquet at

I have this code in a notebook:val streamingDataFrame = incomingStream.selectExpr("cast (body as string) AS Content") .withColumn("Sentiment", toSentiment($"Content")) import org.apache.spark.sql.streaming.Trigger.ProcessingTime val result = stre...

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-werners-
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seems like an invalid parquet file. my guess is the incoming data has mixed types (for the same column) or a different/invalid structure.

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cconnell
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medium.com

I wrote a review of Koalas by porting an existing pandas program. Comments welcome.https://medium.com/@chuck.connell.3/pandas-on-databricks-via-koalas-a-review-9876b0a92541

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haseebkhan1421
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How can I create a column on the fly which would have same value for all rows in spark sql query

I have a SQL query which I am converting into spark sql in azure databricks running in my jupyter notebook. In my SQL query, a column named Type is created on the fly which has value 'Goal' for every row:SELECT Type='Goal', Value FROM tableNow, when...

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Ryan_Chynoweth
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The correct syntax would be: SELECT 'Goal' AS Type, Value FROM table

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maheshwor
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Resolved! Databricks Views

How do we find the definition of View in databricks?

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Ryan_Chynoweth
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You can use the extended table description. For example, the following python code will print the current definition of the view: table_name = "" df = spark.sql("describe table extended {}".format(table_name)) df.createOrReplaceTempView("view_desript...

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TimothyClotwort
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SQL Alter table command not working for me

I am a novice with databricks. I am performing some independent learning. I am trying to add a column to an existing table. Here is my syntax: %sql ALTER TABLE car_parts ADD COLUMNS (engine_present boolean) which returns the error:SyntaxError: inva...

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Ryan_Chynoweth
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Is the table you are working with in the Delta format? The table commands (i.e. Alter) do not work for all storage formats. For example if I run the following commands then I can alter a table. Note - there is no data in the table but the table exist...

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rami1
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Missing Databricks Datasets

Hi, I am looking at my Databricks workspace and it looks like I am missing DBFS Databricks-dataset root folder. The dbfs root folders I can view are FileStore, local_disk(),mnt, pipelines and user. Can I mount Databricks-dataset or am I missing some...

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Ryan_Chynoweth
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If you run the following command do you receive an error? Or do you just get an empty list?dbutils.fs.ls("/databricks-datasets")

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NickGoodfella
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DNS_Analytics Notebook Problems

Hello everyone! First post on the forums, been stuck at this for awhile now and cannot seem to understand why this is happening. Basically, I have been using a seems to be premade Databricks notebook from Databricks themselves for a DNS Analytics exa...

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sean_owen
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@NickGoodfella​ , What's the notebook you're looking at, this one? https://databricks.com/notebooks/dns-analytics.html Are you sure all the previous cells executed? this is suggesting there isn't a model at the path that's expected. You can take a lo...

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User16826994223
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The State in-stream is growing too large in stream

I have a customer with a streaming pipeline from Kafka to Delta. They are leveraging RocksDB, watermarking for 30min and attempting to dropDuplicates. They are seeing their state grow to 6.2 billion rows--- on a stream that hits at maximum 7000 rows ...

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shaines
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I've seen a similar issue with large state using flatMapGroupsWithState. It is possible that A.) they are not using the state.setTimeout correctly or B.) they are not calling state.remove() when the stored state has timed out, leaving the state to gr...

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PadamTripathi
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how to calculate median on azure databricks delta table using sql

how to calculate median on delta tables in azure databricks using sql ? select col1, col2, col3, median(col5) from delta table group by col1, col2, col3

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-werners-
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try with the percentile function, as median = percentile 50: https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/sql/#percentile

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AlexDavies
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Genrated partition column not being used by optimizer

We have created a table using the new generated column feature (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/delta/delta-batch#deltausegeneratedcolumns) CREATE TABLE ingest.MyEvent( data binary, topic string, timestamp timestamp, date dat...

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-werners-
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I think you have to pass a date in your select query instead of a timestamp.The generated column will indeed derive a data from the timestamp and partition by it. But the docs state: When you write to a table with generated columns and you do not ex...

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irfanaziz
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What could be the issue with parquet file?

when trying to update or display the dataframe, one of the parquet files is having some issue, "Parquet column cannot be converted. Expected: DecimalType(38,18), Found: DOUBLE" What could be the issue?

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-werners-
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try to explicitly cast the double column to dec(38,18) and then do the display.

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