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A live table or view always reflects the results of the query that defines it, including when the query defining the table or view is updated, or an input data source is updated. Like a traditional materialized view, a live table or view may be entir...

Hi @nafri A​ ,What is the error you are getting, can you share it please? Like @Hubert Dudek​ mentioned, both will call the same APIs

spark.sessionState.catalog.listTables is a more lazy implementation.. it does not pull the column details when listing the tables. Hence it's faster. Whereas catalog.listTables will pull the column details as well. If the database has many Delta tabl...

Coalesce essentially groups multiple partitions into a larger partitions. So use coalesce when you want to reduce the number of partitions (and also tasks) without impacting sort order.  Ex:- when you want to write-out a single CSV file output instea...

Spark's execution engine is designed to be Lazy. In effect, you're first up build up your analytics/data processing request through a series of Transformations which are then executed by an ActionTransformations are kind of operations which will tran...

%run is copying code from another notebook and executing it within the one its called from. All variables defined in the notebook being called are therefore visible to the caller notebook dbutils.notebook.run() is more around executing different note...