Yes, too many small Parquet files in a Delta table can degrade write performance by increasing metadata overhead during commits. Regularly running OPTIMIZE helps reduce this impact and improve streaming latency.
You're right to be concerned — this sounds like a classic case of memory or resource leakage over time, which can affect long-running jobs even if metrics look okay on the surface. In triggered DLT (now Lakeflow) pipelines, tasksand state can accumul...
Hi Alex,You're definitely not alone — this is a common issue when using the Spotify API in environments like Databricks or Jupyter Notebooks, where user input through the console (like typing in a prompt) isn't supported.What's happening is that the ...
Hi MGraham,To import an Excel spreadsheet into a database table in Databricks, you can first upload the Excel file to DBFS (Databricks File System), then use libraries like pandas to read the Excel file (e.g., pd.read_excel("/dbfs/path/to/file.xlsx")...
Hi Avinash, You could give ChatGPT a shot — just ask it to help convert it for you. You might honestly be surprised by how well it handles it. There are more advanced ways to do it too, though those can get a bit tricky if you're not used to them.
