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mipayof346
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New to databricks, which certification should I start?

I’m new to Databricks and don’t have any practical experience. I can write SQL code fluently. I’d like to get Databricks certified, which exam should I start to get a good understanding of the fundamentals?Also, what are the most important basic conc...

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JodySF
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@mipayof346 it's best to start with the Lakehouse Fundamentals Accreditation (free course, free assessment). Then I recommend that you move to the Data Analyst certification path. Details on both can be found here: https://www.databricks.com/learn/ce...

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vk217
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Resolved! Selective column loader unity catalog

I am loading a table into a data frame using df = spark.table(table_name) Is there a way to load only the required columns? The table has more than 50+ columns and I only need a handful of column.

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daniel_sahal
Databricks MVP
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@vk217 Simply just use select function, ex.df = spark.read.table(table_name).select("col1", "col2", "col3")

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6502
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Terraform provider, problemi in creating dependant task!

Hola all.I have a serious problem, perhaps I missed something, but can't find the solution. I need to push a job description to Databricks using TERRAFORM. I wrote the code, but there is no way to get a task dependant from two different tasks.Conside...

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daniel_sahal
Databricks MVP
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@6502 You need to make multiple depends_on blocks for each dependency, ex.depends_on { task_key = "ichi" } depends_on { task_key = "ni" }

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Sai1098
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Reading tables from different databricks clusters

Hello,My organization uses two cluster for dev and Prod. We mount our azure blobs on to delta lake to store the delta tables. Prod has bunch of data and dev has limited data. I want to move the data from prod to dev for testing purposes. How can I do...

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btafur
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It depends on the current setup, how your clusters are working right now and how your data is stored. One alternative could be mount the Dev storage to the Prod cluster and execute a DEEP CLONE (https://docs.databricks.com/en/sql/language-manual/delt...

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shihs
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Can not read data from GCS

I am trying to use Databricks to read data on Google Cloud Storage (GCS) with Databricks on Google Cloud. I followed the steps from https://docs.gcp.databricks.com/storage/gcs.html.I have tried Access GCS buckets using Google Cloud service accounts o...

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hafeez
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Repos section in Admin Settings Page is not visible

Hello,We have multitple workspace of Azure Databricks and we recently noticed that in some of the Administrator workspace settings, we are not able to Repos section (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/repos/repos-setup#--restrict-usag...

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Kaviana
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Connection VPC AWS in Databricks for extract data Oracle Onpremise

 Hi, help meHow can I consume a VPC when it is already anchored in the "network" of Databricks to extract information from a server that really made ping and works

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Kaviana
Databricks Partner
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Hello @Retired_mod I have already configured in "Cloud resources"/ "Network" the Private endpoint links and the linked VPC in ibabricks. How can I connect to Oracle using the EC2 virtual machine?Thank u

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simran_27
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Error while attempt to give Lakehouse fundamentals exam

I would like to know why I am getting this error when I tried to earn badges for lake house fundamentals. I can't access the quiz page. Can you please help on this?I am getting 403: Forbidden error.

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APadmanabhan
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Hi @simran_27 could you please try using the link 

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ushnish_98
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Resolved! Databricks Certificate

I cleared Databricks Associate level certification on 25th September. But, I am yet to receive my certificate from Databricks. I raised a ticket for the same but got no response from the suppport team.

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APadmanabhan
Databricks Employee
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Hello There, Can you share the ticket number, note that we have a high influx of cases and the team is actively working on clearing the backlogs and you should be able to receive the reply in the next 48 hours. I appreciate the patience.

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rajib_bahar_ptg
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Databricks workspace unstable

Our company's databricks workspace is unstable lately. It can't launch any compute cluster. I have never seen this issue. In addition to this issues, I have seen storage credential error on main unity catalog. Why would this happen AWS Databricks ins...

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rajib_bahar_ptg
New Contributor III
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Hello @Retired_mod and @jose_gonzalez ,I couldn't locate the support ticket we opened. How can we track that ticket down? It came from the peopletech.com domain. If it is more efficient to create another ticket, please let me know. Let us know the UR...

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Sujitha
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Webinar: Accelerate Data and AI Projects With Databricks Notebooks

Register now: October 24, 2023 | 8:00 AM PT Use new capabilities in Databricks Notebooks to speed up innovation. This webinar will walk you through the features that are designed to take the manual effort and delays out of building and deploying dat...

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Ajay-Pandey
Databricks MVP
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This will help databricks user to speed up development.

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gideont
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Application extracting Data from Unity Catalogue

Dear Databricks community,I'm seeking advice on the best method for applications to extract data from the Unity catalogue. One suggested approach is to use JDBC, but there seems to be a dilemma. Although using a job cluster has been recommended due t...

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-werners-
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What exacltly do you mean by 'extracting'?  If you want to load tables defined in Unity into a database, I would indeed do this using job clusters and a notebook.If you want to extract some data once in a while into a csv f.e., you could perfectly do...

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