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Akshith_Rajesh
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Does DataBricks lock the file in Adls Gen 2 before writing (Append) to a file If yes then how can we fetch the file is locked

I have a requirement , I am running 2 Notebooks parallelly I want to overwrite the file parallelly .If 2 Notebooks Try to overwrite the file at the same time , will I lose the data because of overwriting the file at the same time .I want to overwr...

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Hi @Rajesh Akshith​ Hope all is well! Just wanted to check in if you were able to resolve your issue and would you be happy to share the solution or mark an answer as best? Else please let us know if you need more help. We'd love to hear from you.Tha...

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elgeo
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Moving data to a delta table keeping the old surrogate ids intact

Hello experts! We have a table in our current system that we need to move it (one-off) to a delta in Databricks keeping its Ids (surrogate keys) intact. We think to of the following steps: 1. create a new delta table with a "BIGINT GENERATED BY DEFAU...

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lizou
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same here, I submitted an idea in the azure databricks portalhttps://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/d403303c-6761-ed11-a81b-000d3ae5ae95SET IDENTITY_INSERT ONwhen a column is defined as GENERATED ALWAYS, we often need to reload data with exact...

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577391
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Resolved! How do I merge two tables and track changes to missing rows as well as new rows

In my scenario, the new data coming in are the current, valid records. Any records that are not in the new data should be labeled as 'Gone", any matching records should be labeled with "Updated". And finally, any new records should be added.So in sum...

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-werners-
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Detection deletions does not work out of the box.The merge statement will evaluate the incoming data against the existing data. It will not check the existing data against the incoming data.To mark deletions, you will have to specifically update tho...

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