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SamGreene
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String to date conversion errors

Hi,I am getting data from CDC on SQL Server using Informatica which is writing parquet files to ADLS.  I read the parquet files using DLT and end up with the date data as a string such as this'20240603164746563' I couldn't get this to convert using m...

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SamGreene
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Checking on my current code, this is what I am using, which works for me because we don't use daylight savings time.  from_utc_timestamp(date_time_utc, 'UTC-7') as date_time_local

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GeKo
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Insufficient privileges:User does not have permission SELECT on any file

Hello,after switching to "shared cluster" usage a python job is failing with error message:  Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o877.load. : org.apache.spark.SparkSecurityException: [INSUFFICIENT_PERMISSIONS] Insufficient privileges: User...

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Uj337
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Hi @GeKo The checkpoint directory, is that set on cluster level or how do we set that ? Can you please help me with this ?

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RobsonNLPT
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Databricks UC Data Lineage Official Limitations

Hi all.I have a huge data migration project using medallion architecture,  UC, notebooks and workflows . One of the relevant requirements we have is to capture all data dependencies (upstreams and downstreams) using data lineage. I've followed all re...

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MathieuDB
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Hello @RobsonNLPT , Yes SQL CTE are supported by the data lineage service. You can track table that were created using CTEs. Here is an example that demonstrate the feature. CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS mpelletier.dbdemos.menu ( recipe_id INT, ...

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OlehSemeniuk
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Resolved! Ingesting and Transforming NetCDF Data in Delta Table on Databricks Cluster

Hi,I need to ingest and transform historical climate data into a Delta table. The data is stored in .nc format (NetCDF). To work with this format, specific C libraries for Python are required, along with particular versions of Python libraries (e.g.,...

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Walter_C
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Great, please let us know in case any assistance is needed

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Brianhourigan
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Service Principal Access to Users Directory in Databricks - Creating Git Folders

I am trying to automate the creation of git folders in user workspace directories triggered by GitHub feature branch creation. When developers create feature branches in GitHub, we want a service principal to automatically create corresponding git fo...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @Brianhourigan, Can you please DIM your suggestions? I can add it to our internal AHA idea.

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iptkrisna
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Restore deleted databricks jobs and job runs

Hi All,Is there a way to restore deleted databricks jobs?Thank you.

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hari-prasad
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Hi @iptkrisna ,Currently, there is no option to recover deleted items. In architectures, it not necessary to control or manage the final code available in the system. Instead, the focus should be controlling and managing how code and jobs are deploye...

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shwetamagar
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Resolved! Unity Catalog : RDD Issue

In our existing notebooks, the scripts are reliant on RDDs. However, with the upgrade to Unity Catalog, RDDs will no longer be supported. We need to explore alternative approaches or tools to replace the use of RDDs. Could you suggest the best practi...

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Walter_C
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To transition from using RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets) to alternative approaches supported by Unity Catalog, you can follow these best practices and migration strategies: Use DataFrame API: The DataFrame API is the recommended alternative to...

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mrstevegross
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Resolved! Tutorial docs for running a job using serverless?

I'm exploring whether serverless (https://docs.databricks.com/en/jobs/run-serverless-jobs.html#create-a-job-using-serverless-compute) could be useful for our use case. I'd like to see an example of using serverless via the API. The docs say "To learn...

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mrstevegross
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Thanks!

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mrstevegross
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preloaded_docker_images: how do they work?

At my org, when we start a databricks cluster, it oftens takes awhile to become available (due to (1) instance provisioning, (2) library loading, and (3) init script execution). I'm exploring whether an instance pool could be a viable strategy for im...

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Alberto_Umana
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Sure, I will inform the team in charge of it to review it.

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aonurdemir
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Resolved! Is there a cluster option for dashboards?

Hi everyone,I do not want to use 4 DBU/h XS warehouse since I have very tiny data on the new startup. I want to create a minimal cluster and run it as the underlying SQL engine for my dashboard.Thanks.

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Unfortunately no, as dashboards are part of the SQL service on the platform they are designed to work with SQL warehouses only, you can create Notebook dashboards that will be able to work with regular clusters but functionalities will be limited in ...

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h2p5cq8
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Resolved! Databricks workflow with sequenced tasks

I have a continuous workflow. It is continuous because I would like it to run every minute and if it has stuff to do the first task will take several minutes. As I understand, continuous workflows won't requeue while a job is currently running, where...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @h2p5cq8, No problem! and you can have the queue option disabled to stop it. Go to the Advanced settings in the Job details side panel and toggle off the Queue option to prevent jobs from being queued

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vicky403
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How Development Target works for multiple users?

Hi, I'm using the Databricks asset bundle to deploy my job to Azure Databricks.I want to configure the Databricks bundle so that when anyone runs the Azure pipeline, a job is created under their name in the format dev_username_job.Using a personal ac...

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zuzsad
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Were you able to solve this?

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ahsan_aj
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Azure Databricks Enterprise Application User Impersonation Token Group Claims Issue

Hi all, I am using the Azure Databricks Microsoft Managed Enterprise Application scope (2ff814a6-3304-4ab8-85cb-cd0e6f879c1d/user_impersonation) to fetch an access token on behalf of a user. The authentication process is successful; however, the acce...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @ahsan_aj, You can modify your token request by adding a claims parameter     const claimsRequest = {         "access_token": {             "groups": null         } https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/zero-trust/develop/configure-tokens-gro...

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JohnsonBDSouza
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Unable to create Iceberg tables pointing to data in S3 and run queries against the tables.

I need to to set up Iceberg tables in Databricks environment, but the data resides in an S3 bucket. Then read these tables by running SQL queries.Databricks environment has access to S3. This is done bysetting up the access by mapping the Instance Pr...

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Venkat5
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It looks like Databricks making things difficult to use iceberg tables. There is no clear online documentation or steps provided to use with plain spark & spark sql,  and the errors thrown in the Databricks environment are very cryptic.They wanted to...

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cheerwthraj
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Best practices for tableau to connect to Databricks

Having problem in connecting to Databrikcs with service principal from tableau . Wanted to how how tableau extracts refreshing connecting to databricks , is it via individual Oauth or service principal

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saikumar246
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Hi @cheerwthraj,  To connect Tableau to Databricks and refresh extracts, you can use either OAuth or service principal authentication. For best practices, please refer to the below link, https://docs.databricks.com/en/partners/bi/tableau.html#best-pr...

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