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rami1
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METASTORE_DOWN: Cannot connect to metastore

I am trying to view databases and tables, default as well user created but it looks like the cluster created is not able to connect. I am using databricks default hive metastore. Viewing cluster logs provide following ventMETASTORE_DOWN Metastore is...

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Anonymous
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@rami​ :If the metastore is down, it means that the Databricks cluster is not able to connect to the metastore. Here are a few things you can try to resolve the issue:Check if the Hive metastore is up and running. You can try to connect to the metast...

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RC
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Not able to create a unity metastore in a specified region

Hi Team,I'm not able to create a metastore in a region (us-east-1).It tells me that "This region already contains a metastore. Only a single metastore is allowed per region"But we don't have any metastore. Earlier we had one metastore we had deleted...

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karthik_p
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@Rajath C​ can you please re-check if it has been properly deleted and if still old one has been tied to any of workspaces. also try to delete that storage if no data exists and retry

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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Hi Debayan,Thank you for answering my question.We were able to successfully attach the 2nd workspace (on a different AWS account) to the existing UC metastore on another AWS account.Unfortunately, we couldn't figure out what we did differently. It se...

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andrew0117
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How to sync the meta store info with the real data for external delta table

if I manually delete some parque files in location which the real data is stored in, so spark catalog still has the old version. How can I sync them?Thanks!

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youssefmrini
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You just need to create a new table and specify the location of the data for your case it's going to be an ADLS, S3...Example​Create table customer using delta location 'mnt/data./'

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saurabh12521
by New Contributor II
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Unity through terraform

I am working on automation of Unity through terraform. I have referred below link link to get started :https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databricks/databricks/latest/docs/guides/unity-catalog-azureI am facing issue when I create metastore using...

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Pat
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Not sure if you got this working, but I noticed you are using provider: `databrickslabs/databricks`, hence why this is not avaialable. You should be using new provider: `databricks/databricks`: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databricks/datab...

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Harsh1
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Issues in Metastore Migration using Databricks Migration Tool

Hi Team,As I'm performing the Databricks workspace migration, during Metastore migration I'm facing below issue.As we found differences in the Metastore table count between Legacy and Target workspace, we checked error logs.After going through Failed...

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fundat
by New Contributor II
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Metastore - Access validation failed

Hi,When i create a metastore in aws databricks, i always have this error in the picture bellow.Eventhought i follow this link https://docs.databricks.com/data-governance/unity-catalog/get-started.html#cloud-tenant-setup-aws

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karthik_p
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@Anatole Cadet​ looks your IAM role is not properly configured, can you please check

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nbakh
by New Contributor II
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import of tables to a new metastore failed with schema mismatch "specified schema does not match the existing schema"

The error i get when importing certain delta table isThe specified schema does not match the existing schema at dbfs:/mnt/mart/tablenamehowever, when i check the metadata table in the old workspace and the exported file, they match. However, it seems...

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nbakh
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below is example error. however, in existing metadata i still see varchar 100 as the type. Specified metadata for field Percentage is different from existing schema:\n Specified: {}\n Existing: {\"HIVE_TYPE_STRING\":\"varchar(100)\"}\n\nIf your inte...

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AP
by New Contributor III
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How can we connect to the databricks managed metastore

Hi, I am trying to take advantage of the treasure trove of the information that metastore contains and take some actions to improve performance. In my case, the metastore is managed by databricks, we don't use external metastore.How can I connect to ...

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Prabakar
Databricks Employee
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@AKSHAY PALLERLA​ to get the jdbc/odbc information you can get it from the cluster configuration. In the cluster configuration page, under advanced options, you have JDBC/ODBC tab. Click on that tab and it should give you the details you are looking ...

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AlexDavies
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Resolved! How to upgrade internal hive metadata store version

Is it possible to upgrade the out of the box hive metastore version? running spark.conf.get("spark.sql.hive.metastore.version") indicates that it is running on 0.13.0 However https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/release-notes/runtime/7....

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pantelis_mare
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Hello guys!Atanu's post, although correct does not solve the problem. Is there any official documentation on how to upgrade the internal databricks metastore to a greater version? If this is availble then we can try Atanu's solution (not sure if need...

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LukaszJ
by Contributor III
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Resolved! Terraform: get metastore id without creating new metastore

Hello,I want to create database (schema) and tables in my Databricks workspace using terraform.I found this resources: databricks_schemaIt requires databricks_catalog, which requires metastore_id.However, I have databricks_workspace and I did not cre...

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Atanu
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https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databrickslabs/databricks/latest/docs/resources/schema I think this is for UC. https://docs.databricks.com/data-governance/unity-catalog/index.html

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alonisser
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Resolved! How to migrate an existing workspace for an external metastore

Currently we're on an azure databricks workspace, we've setup during the POC, a long time ago. In the meanwhile we have built quite a production workload above databricks.Now we want to split workspaces - one for analysts and one for data engineeri...

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Hubert-Dudek
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From databricks notebook just run mysqldump. Server address and details you can take from logs or configuration.I am including also link to example notebook https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/kb/_static/notebooks/2016-election-tweets.h...

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Oliver_Floyd
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Resolved! How to update external metastore cluster configuration on the fly ?

Hello,In my use case, my data is pushed to an adls gen2 container called ingestAfter some data processing on a databricks cluster of the ingest workspace, I declare the associated table in an external metastore for this workspaceAt the end of this pr...

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Oliver_Floyd
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Hello @Atanu Sarkar​ ,Thank you for your answer. I have created a feature request. I hope, it will be soon accepted ^^

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prasadvaze
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which table in external hive metastore stores the folder path for delta table's data?

which table in external hive metastore stores the folder path for delta table's data? Is it SDS table?

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Hubert-Dudek
Esteemed Contributor III
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Image here can be helpful https://analyticsanvil.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/hive_metastore_database_diagram.png

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Anonymous
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Are there any costs or quotas associated with the Databricks managed Hive metastore?

When using the default hive metastore that is managed within the Databricks control plane are there any associated costs? I.e. if I switched to an external metastore would I expect to see any reduction in my Databricks cost (ignoring total costs).Do ...

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Ryan_Chynoweth
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There are no costs associated by using the Databricks managed Hive metastore directly. Databricks pricing is on a compute consumption and not on data storage or access. The only real cost would be the compute used to access the data. I would not expe...

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