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dtabass
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How/where can I see a list of my dbfs files?

When using the Community Edition, I'm trying to find a place in the UI where I can browse the files that I've uploaded to dbfs. How/where can I do that? When I try to view them from the Data sidebar I see nothing, yet I know they're there, as if I us...

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1. Enable it from the settings->advanced-> dbfs browser 2. Refresh the page3. You can browse by clicking Catalog->Browse DBFS  

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abhinandan084
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Community Edition signup issues

I am trying to sign up for the community edition (https://databricks.com/try-databricks) for use with a databricks academy course. However, I am unable to signup and I receive the following error (image attached). On going to login page (link in ora...

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brokeTechBro
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Hello,I get "An error occurred, try again"I am exhausted from trying... also from solving the puzzle to prove I'm not a robot

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Lizhi_Dong
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Tables disappear when I re-start a new cluster on Community Edition

What would be the best plan for independent course creator?Hi folks! I want to use databrick community edition as the platform to teach online courses. As you may know, for community edition, you need to create a new cluster when the old one terminat...

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Shivanshu_
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I believe only the metadata get's removed from HMS not the delta files from dbfs. Instead of loading the data again and again try using ctas with that dbfs location.

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elgeo
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Data type length enforcement

Hello. Is there a way to enforce the length of a column in SQL? For example that a column has to be exactly 18 characters? Thank you!

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databricks31
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we are facing similar issues while write into adls location delta format, after that we created on top delta location unity catalog tables. below format of data type length should be possible to change spark sql supported ?Azure SQL Spark            ...

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jagger9919
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Unable to login to community edition

Hello there,I have successfully created a databricks account and went to login to the community edition with the exact same login credentials as my account, but it tells me that the email/password are invalid. I can login with these same exact creden...

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xxl4tomxu98
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I have the same issue, and I have previously logged in and only a few months ago, it started the problem. Can anyone help?

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Navashakthi
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Resolved! Community Edition Sign-up Issue

Hi, I'm trying to signup community edition for learning purpose. The sign up page has issue in selecting country. The select dropdown doesn't work and continue option redirects to same page. Couldn't complete signup. Kindly help!

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amitdas2k6
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for me it is alwas displaying below error but entered correct user name and passowrd,my user name : amit.das2k16@gmail.com Invalid email address or passwordNote: Emails/usernames are case-sensitive 

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parthsalvi
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getContext() in dbutils.notebook not working in DBR 11.2 10.4 LTS Shared Mode It's also working in no isolation Mode in DBR 11.2

We are trying to fetch notebook context in our Job logging workflow.current_context = dbutils.notebook.entry_point.getDbutils().notebook().getContext().toJson()We were able to access this in DBR 10.4 custom mode but in DBR 10.4 & 11.2 (Shared Mode) w...

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Tjomme
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See also: https://community.databricks.com/s/question/0D58Y00009t95NHSAY/unity-catalog-shared-access-mode-dbutilsnotebookentrypointgetcontext-not-whitelisted

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Silán
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Resolved! Kept outputs

Hi everyone,I was wondering if perhaps someone of you could tell me which kinds of outputs are kept in a notebook after the cluster to which it is attached is terminated... Actually, I am asking it especially because I lost some visualization that I ...

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Silán
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Great. Thanks a lot.

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Retko
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Resolved! Data Tab is not showing any databases and tables even though cluster is running (Community edition)

Hi, I have a cluster running: But I dont see anything in Data Tab: As you can see it tells about some error, but error appeared after I deleted clusters which were terminated. Before it said something that cluster is not running, dont remember exactl...

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Rajani
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@Retko Okter​ You need to enable DBFS File Browser from the Admin Settings hope this helps.

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Teja07
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Ingesting data from oracle to databricks through IICS

While ingesting the data from oracle to databricks through IICS, target table were created however data is not getting inserted. Below is the error. Could someone please help meException occurred when initializing data session. Root cause: java.lang....

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jhgorse
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Resolved! autoloader break on migration from community to trial premium with s3 mount

in dbx community edition, the autoloader works using the s3 mount. s3 mount, autoloader:dbutils.fs.mount(f"s3a://{access_key}:{encoded_secret_key}@{aws_bucket_name}", f"/mnt/{mount_name}from pyspark.sql import SparkSession from pyspark.sql.functions ...

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Hi @Joe Gorse​ Thank you for posting your question in our community! We are happy to assist you.To help us provide you with the most accurate information, could you please take a moment to review the responses and select the one that best answers you...

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Resolved! Clusters stuck on pending indefinitely (community edition)

From yesterday, suddenly clusters do not start and are in the pending state indefinitely (more than 30 minutes). From a previous post, I tried to add 443 port to the firewall but it doesn't help. In the clusters page, the message says: Finding instan...

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Reet
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I am also having same issue and there seems to be no outage.....

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Hari_Dbrc
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Issue while using community edition

Hello,Is anyone facing issue with their community edition.?Shows the below error and cant access the workspace or previosly created notebooks..Tried accessing from different devices..(not a cache issue)Error popup:(screenshots attached)Unable to view...

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Hi @Hari N​ Thank you for reaching out, and we’re sorry to hear about this log-in issue! We have this Community Edition login troubleshooting post on Community. Please take a look, and follow the troubleshooting steps. If the steps do not resolve the...

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Student185
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Resolved! Is that long-term free version for students still available now?

Dear sir/madam,I've tried lots of methods in order to access the long-term Databricks' free version - community version for students.Also, I followed the instructions - Introduction to Databricks - in Coursera step by step: https://www.coursera.org/l...

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shreeves
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Look for the "Community Edition" in small print below the button

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elgeo
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Trasform SQL Cursor using Pyspark in Databricks

We have a Cursor in DB2 which reads in each loop data from 2 tables. At the end of each loop, after inserting the data to a target table, we update records related to each loop in these 2 tables before moving to the next loop. An indicative example i...

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