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ChristianRRL
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Materialized Views Without DLT?

I'm curious, is DLT *required* to use Materialized Views in Databricks? Is it not possible to create and refresh a Materialized view via a standard Databricks Workflow?

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hari-prasad
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Hi @ChristianRRL ,When creating a materialized view in Databricks, the data is stored in DBFS, cloud storage, or Unity Catalog volume. You can still create a materialized view by overwriting the same table each time, instead of using Append, Update, ...

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ChristianRRL
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Purpose of DLT Table table_properties > quality:medallion

Hi there, silly question here but can anyone help me understand what practical purpose does labelling the table_properties with "quality":"<specific_medallion>"? For example: @Dlt.table( comment="Bronze live streaming table for Test data", name="...

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nochimo
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I'm with the same doubt @ChristianRRL, did you figured out something related to it?My doubt is to check if it's possible to apply any kind of access control based on this property.

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Geophph
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Resolved! Plotly Express not rendering in Firefox but fine in Safari

Using a basic example of plotly express i see no output in firefox but is fine in Safari. Any ideas why this may occur?  import plotly.express as px import pandas as pd # Create a sample dataframe df = pd.DataFrame({ 'x': range(10), 'y': [2, 3, 5, 7...

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Geophph
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UPDATE: I reached out further to Databricks support and they have since deployed a fix. Works fine for me now!

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Avvar2022
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Unity catalog enabled workspace -Is there any way to disable workflow/job creation for certain users

Currently in unity catalog enabled workspace users with "Workspace access" can create workflows/jobs, there is no access control available to restrict users from creating jobs/workflows.Use case: In production there is no need for users, data enginee...

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Avvar2022
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@Lakshay Databricks offers a robust platform with a variety of features, including data ingestion, engineering, science, dashboards, and applications. However, I believe that some features, such as workflow/job creation, alerts, dashboards, and Genie...

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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
Databricks Employee
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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
Databricks Employee
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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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