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arnavsood
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Concurrency in replaceWhere()

Hi Databricks team I had a quick question and would appreciate your guidance. Let’s say I have a Delta table (not partitioned), and I'm using the overwrite mode along with the replaceWhere clause to overwrite data for city = 'LA' and city = 'NY' in t...

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SP_6721
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Hi @arnavsood ,As per my understanding, even if parallel jobs are using overwrite with replaceWhere to update different rows, file-level conflicts can still occur. That’s because Delta Lake doesn’t provide row-level concurrency by default.Row-level c...

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cpatte7372
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Resolved! Is it Possible to Install Python Libraries or any Python Wheels on the New Databricks Free Account

Hi Community,I have been informed that it's not possible to install either Python libraries, Python wheels or MAVEN libraries on the new Databricks Free account - It is possible with the old Databrick Community EditionCan someone please confirm that ...

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cpatte7372
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szymon_dybczakThis is fantastic.Thank you so much.

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smpa01
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Resolved! re: dbfs on free edition

Thank you very much for the new free edition.I have a question related to dbfs.Am I to understand that dbfs is disabled in this edition and one needs to bring their own storage. I tried this and failed. What do I need to do in order to be able to use...

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smpa01
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Many thanks, I just realized after creating the post through resource   

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Mohit787
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Resolved! Licenses Required for a demo.

Our team is looking for 90 day period licenses to integrate Databricks ai functions for a demo. Could you please let us know the procedure to procure them ASAP ?

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Advika
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Hello @Mohit787! Please contact Help@databricks.com. The support team will be able to guide you through the next steps.

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OU_Professor
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Resolved! Community (Legacy) Edition Question

Hello,I have been teaching my Data Warehousing class using the Databricks Community Edition.  With the change to the Databricks Free Edition, there are many aspects of my Community Edition notebooks that no longer work in the free Edition.  Is there ...

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Advika
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Hello @OU_Professor! Access to existing Community Edition accounts will remain available for the rest of the year. However, please note that new users attempting to sign up for Community Edition are now redirected to the Free Edition instead.

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giuseppe_esq
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Resolved! How can I import multiple Files (stored locally) into Databricks Tables

First of all, Hello Everyone!This is my first post on here. For the past few months, I have been working on my personal Microsoft Azure Blog, that includes some Azure Databricks user guides.  Sadly, as I am currently searching for work (that is rathe...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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@giuseppe_esq personally, I'd love to get the Azure certs! I'll definitely be following the blog. Thanks a bunch for linking that . I'm also learning Databricks so do keep in touch. To answer this question:Awesome, thanks again. Sorry if I sound clu...

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arshadnehal
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Merge issue with column mask delta tables

Facing issue when doing merge of dataframe to delta table which has mask applied on two of the columns.Code DeltaTable.forName(sparkSession=spark,tableOrViewName=f'{catalog}.{schema}.{table_name}').alias('target').merge( new_df.alias('updates'), ...

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Pat
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It looks like Delta Lake APIs (i.e. DeltaTable... ) are not supported with Row filters and column masks.Please see limitations: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/tables/row-and-column-filters#limitations

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amartinez4
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Need Help Signing up for Databricks via Google Cloud

I have purchased Databricks via Google Cloud but my order is still pending. I emailed support and they mentioned that it is pending because "You have not purchased any of the support contracts (business, enhanced, or production support) to move the c...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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Hi @amartinez4, based on your requirement, why don't you sign up for the new Databricks Free Edition?https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-databricks-free-edition If you'd rather work with the trial version, can you let us know if you've had an...

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na_ra_7
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Resolved! can load/read file in databricks free edition(which is all new edition replacing community edition)

FL_DATAFRAME = spark.read.format("csv")\                                                 .option("header", "false")\                                                 .option("inferschema", "false")\                                                 .opt...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @na_ra_7 ,In Free Edition dbfs is disabled. I doubt that above approach will work. But you should use Unity Catalog for that purpose anyway. DBFS is depracated pattern of interacting with storage.So, to use volume perform following steps:Go to Cat...

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jayeshkadam_98
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Resolved! Not able to login

I’m encountering an issue when trying to log in—I'm receiving the error shown below. Previously, I was able to log in, but I noticed that none of my notebooks were appearing in the workspace.Could you please look into this and assist?You are not a me...

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sridharplv
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HI @jayeshkadam_98 , If it is organization account and your access is removed from workspace, then there is a chance that you will be facing this issue. Please reach out to your organization databricks admin to help you with the same to check your us...

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Sharanya13
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Resolved! Databricks community edition login issues with Azure portal login

Hi, I used to log in with Azure Databricks using my Azure portal username (email). I used the same email to sign up for Hi, and I used it to log in to Azure Databricks through my Azure portal username (email). I used the same email to sign up for the...

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Khaja_Zaffer
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Translator That's awesome, Sridhar. Sorry I missed out on reading this. 

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Dataenginerring
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*Urgent**** -Unable to login to Account console----Couln't able to do Project work

I have created a free trial subscription for DatabricksI'm unable to login to account console of databricks . Please find the attached error image . please give me the account console access so that I can implement unity catalog . I’ve logged in with...

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TheOC
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Hey @Dataenginerring it suggests the issue might be on the Microsoft/tenancy side.Could you try connecting to databricks with another browser, or through incognito on chrome?

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legendworker
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Resolved! Enable Azure Private Link back-end and front-end connections - Azure Databricks

Hi Team,Can any help me to configure data bricks in azure 

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bhanu_gautam
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@legendworker Sign Up for Azure Databricks:If you do not have an Azure Databricks account, you can sign up for a free trial to get started.Set Up Your Databricks Workspace:After signing up, you need to set up your Databricks workspace. This involves ...

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Siddhartha_Dey
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Resolved! %run "./Includes/Classroom-Setup"

04-Working-With-Dataframes > Describe a DataFrameCode:%python%run "./Includes/Classroom-Setup" Output:/databricks/python/lib/python3.11/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py:2870: UserWarning: Could not open file </Workspace/Users/**********...

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Louis_Frolio
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Those scripts do not work in Community Edition.  When you take our training, and we supply notebooks with demos and labs those notebooks only work in the context of our training environments (e.g. Vocareum). Hope this helps, Lou.

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Chris88
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Resolved! Getting started - How to create an all purpose compute cluster or switch from SQL warehouses

Hello,Today I clicked on the Try Databricks button and set up a workspace to start running some python scripts.  One problem that I've encountered is that when I click on Compute to create a cluster, the only option I have is to Create SQL warehouse....

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bhanu_gautam
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@Chris88 , Yes in free trial and Free edition only serverless cluster is available.

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