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sage5616
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Resolved! Spark persistent view on a partition parquet file

In Spark, is it possible to create a persistent view on a partitioned parquet file in Azure BLOB? The view must be available when the cluster restarted, without having to re-create that view, hence it cannot be a temp view.I can create a temp view, b...

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sage5616
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Here is what worked for me. Hope this helps someone else: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72913913/spark-persistent-view-on-a-partition-parquet-file/72914245#72914245CREATE VIEW test as select * from parquet.`/mnt/folder-with-parquet-file(s)/`@Hu...

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Creating permanent views from dataframes?

Hi:It's possible to create temp views in pyspark using a dataframe (df.createOrReplaceTempView()), and it's possible to create a permanent view in Spark SQL. But as far as I can tell, there is no way to create a permanent view from a dataframe, somet...

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Hi Kaniz:This is what I understood from the research I did, I was curious more as to why permanent views can't be created from dataframes and whether this is a feature that might be implemented by Databricks or Spark at some point. Temporary views ca...

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