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User16826994223
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Azure Databricks with Storage Account as data layer and DBFS understanding

What is the difference between ADLS mounted ON DataBricks and dbfs does the Mount of ADLS on databricks make gives any performance benefit , is the mounted ADLS still behave as object storage or it become simple storage

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User16826994223
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DBFS is just an abstraction on cloud storage By default when you create a workspace, you get an instance of DBFS - so-called DBFS Root. Plus you can mount additional storage accounts under the /mnt folder. Data written to mount point paths (/mnt) is...

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User16826994223
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How to conver Dataframe into JSON on Databricks?

Can I convert my jdbc Dataframe into JSON ? Because when I tried it, it got an error. I'm using a script as Pandas DataFrame function df.to_json()

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User16826994223
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df.toJSON()

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User16783855534
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sajith_appukutt
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The answer varies depending on the cloud provider (as of June 2021) . In GCP, since the architecture is based on GKE , there are additional ip requirements. For more details see

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Anonymous
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Escaped quotes mess up table records

When table content is dumped from the RDBMS (e.g. Oracle), some column values may contain escaped double quotes (\") in the column values, which may cause the values from multiple columns to be concatenated into one value and result in corrupted reco...

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JustinMills
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Resolved! Job fails with "The spark driver has stopped unexpectedly and is restarting. Your notebook will be automatically reattached."

No other output is available, not even output from cells that did run successfully. Also, I'm unable to connect to spark ui or view the logs. It makes an attempt to load each of them, but after some time an error message appears saying it's unable ...

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lzlkni
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most of the time it's out of memory on driver node. check over all the drive log, data node log in Spark UI. And check if u r collecting huge data to drive node, e.g. collect()

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Anonymous
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Delta - open source?

Delta is open source but certain features such as OPTIMIZE, ZORDER are only available on managed DBR. So how open sourced is it really?

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User16826994223
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Some of the feature is exclusively added by datbricks on top of delta not by comunity so comapny has right whether it wants to open source or not

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User16789201666
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User16789201666
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There isn’t a problem purging old data. When using auto loader it’ll take into account new data being added.

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User16789201666
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What is the best practice for generating jobs in an automated fashion?

What is the best practice for generating jobs in an automated fashion?

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User16789201666
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There are several approaches here. You can write an automation script that programmatically accesses Databricks API’s to generate configured jobs. You can also utilize the Databricks Terraform provider. The benefit of the latter approach is that Terr...

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sajith_appukutt
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How can I reduce the risk of data exfiltration while using Databricks

How can I reduce the risk of data exfiltration while using Databricks

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sajith_appukutt
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Databricks enterprise security and admin features allow customers to deploy Databricks using their own managed VPC/ VNET. This enables them to have greater flexibility and control over the configuration of their deployment architectureFor Azure follo...

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Newline characters mess up the table records

When creating tables from text files containing newline characters in the middle of the lines, the table records will null column values because the newline characters in the middle of the lines break the lines into two different records and fill up ...

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jose_gonzalez
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how often should I vacuum my Delta table?

I would like to know how often do I need to vacuum my delta table to clean old files?

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RonanStokes_DB
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The requirements for Vacuum will depend on your application needs and the rate of arrival of new data. Vacuuming removes old versions of data.If you need to be able to query earlier versions of data many months after the original ingest time, then i...

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