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pantelis_mare
by Contributor III
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Spark 3 AQE and cache

Hello everybody,I recently discovered (the hard way) that when a query plan uses cached data, the AQE does not kick-in. Result is that you loose the super cool feature of dynamic partition coalesce (no more custom shuffle readers in the DAG). Is ther...

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jose_gonzalez
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Hi @Pantelis Maroudis​,Did you check the physical query plan? did you check the SQL sub tab with in Spark UI? it will help you to undertand better what is happening.

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-werners-
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Notebook fails in job but not in interactive mode

I have this notebook which is scheduled by Data Factory on a daily basis.It works fine, up to today. All of a sudden I keep on getting NullpointerException when writing the data.After some searching online, I disabled AQE. But this does not help.Th...

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-werners-
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After some tests it seems that if I run the notebook on an interactive cluster, I only get 80% of load (Ganglia metrics).If I run the same notebook on a job cluster with the same VM types etc (so the only difference is interactive vs job), I get over...

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Personal1
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Resolved! Understanding Partitions in Spark Local Mode

I have few fundamental questions in Spark3 while running a simple Spark app in my local mac machine (with 6 cores in total). Please help.local[*] runs my Spark application in local mode with all the cores present on my mac, correct? It also means tha...

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-werners-
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That is a lot of questions in one topic.Let's give it a try:[1] this all depends on the values of the concerning parameters and the program you run(think joins, unions, repartition etc)[2] spark.default.parallelism is by default the number of cores *...

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User16826992666
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Resolved! Do I still need to use skew join hints if I have Adaptive Query Execution enabled?

From what I have read about AQE it seems to do a lot of what skew join hints did automatically. So should I still be using skew hints in my queries? Is there harm in using them?

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sajith_appukutt
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With AQE Databricks  has the most up-to-date accurate statistics at the end of a query stage and can opt for a better physical strategy and or do optimizations that used to require hints,In the case of skew join hints, is recommended to rely on AQE...

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Is there a way to know if Adaptive Query Execution with Spark 3 has changed my Spark plan?

From the demo notebook located here (https://databricks.com/blog/2020/05/29/adaptive-query-execution-speeding-up-spark-sql-at-runtime.html) it seems like the approach to demonstrate AQE was working was to first calculate the Spark query plan before r...

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