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MadelynM
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[Recap] Data + AI Summit 2024 - Warehousing & Analytics | Improve performance and increase insights

Here's your Data + AI Summit 2024 - Warehousing & Analytics recap as you use intelligent data warehousing to improve performance and increase your organization’s productivity with analytics, dashboards and insights.  Keynote: Data Warehouse presente...

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Databricks SQL
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Dnirmania
by Contributor
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Foreign Catalog - AWS Redshift

Hello EveryoneRecently, my team integrated an AWS Redshift database as a foreign catalog in Azure Databricks. We can successfully run SELECT queries and create regular views on top of the foreign catalog table. However, when attempting to create a ma...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @Dnirmania, Materialized views in SQL often use serverless Delta Live Tables pipelines, which might be causing the connection timeout due to IP whitelisting restrictions. Serverless compute might not be able to connect to the federated source if t...

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VCA50380
by Contributor II
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Resolved! Best practice to materialize data

Hello all,I'm quite new to Databricks world, and currently in the process of analyzing a migration from Oracle on-premise (with a lot of SQL, PL/SQL, custom things, etc.) to Databricks.Let's try to illustrate my situation in Oracle (summary):. Let's ...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Hello, sure if any additional information is needed just let us know and we will be happy to assist.

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Akshay_Petkar
by Valued Contributor
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Resolved! Migrate Azure Synapse Analytics data to Databricks

I have to migrate the data from Azure Synapse Analytics to Databricks. Could anyone share the different approaches to migrate data, and from those, which is the best approach to use?

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raushan_kumar
New Contributor II
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Can we mount the Syanpse storage account ADLS Gen2 directly to Databricks and then we can only  migrate pipeline/code to databricks

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VKe
by New Contributor III
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install Oracle Instant Client

Hello all,I want to install Oracle Instant Client to be able to use python-oracledb in Thick-Mode because one of our databases is old and cannot be reached in Thin-Mode. I have tried the solution from this post, but it doesn't help me. It seems that ...

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NelsonE
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What about shared compute, is it possible? Neither of those scripts is working for me really...

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KosmaS
by New Contributor III
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SQL Warehouse - Turning off caching

Hi All,I'd like to do some benchmarking and I need to turn off caching on my SQL Warehouse Server. However, whatever I try I receive quite high level of caching after running my queries (>60%). I tried to turn off my server, but it automatically wake...

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Walter_C
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To disable query result caching, you can run SET use_cached_result = false in the SQL editor.

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jay99
by New Contributor II
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Create multiple SQL warehouse with custom access control

We set up the SQL warehouse IAM role in the settings option. This is applied to all warehouses. How do I create sql warehouses with multiple IAM roles to maintain access control.

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Unfortunately there is no way to restrict the access the compute has, the restrictions are being performed via the users permissions. Only option here will be to submit a feature request through https://docs.databricks.com/en/resources/ideas.html#ide...

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chari
by Contributor
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What is databricks SQL, spark SQL and how are they different from MS SQL ?

Hello Databricks Community,I have a hard time understanding how is Databricks SQL different from microsoft SQL ? Also, why does databricks provide spark SQL ? If you direct me to a well-written webpage or document its of immense help!Thanks,

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Rahul_Saini
New Contributor II
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Databricks SQL and Spark SQL are built for distributed big data analytic. Databricks SQL is great for business intelligence tools and uses Delta Lake for efficient data storage. Spark SQL works with Spark's programming features for data processing. U...

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nomnomnom543
by New Contributor II
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Databricks SQL Wildcard Operator Not Parsed Correctly

Hello there,Wasn't sure if this was just an error on my part, but I'm using a Databricks Pro SQL warehouse and unity catalogue to pull some data from my tables. I'm having this issue where whenever I try and use a wildcard operator with my LIKE claus...

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Rahul_Saini
New Contributor II
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Hi @nomnomnom543 ,Try this SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE LEFT(column_name, LENGTH('string')) = 'string';

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amelia1
by New Contributor II
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Local pyspark read data using jdbc driver returns column names only

Hello,I have an Azure sql warehouse serverless instance that I can connect to using databricks-sql-connector. But, when I try to use pyspark and jdbc driver url, I can't read or write.See my code belowdef get_jdbc_url(): # Define your Databricks p...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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The error does not look specific to the warehouse that you are connecting to. The error message "Unrecognized conversion specifier [msg] starting at position 54 in conversion pattern" indicates that there is an issue with the logging configuration in...

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harveychun
by New Contributor II
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Measures or KPI

With Databricks BI, Is there anyway to create a KPI or Measures that can be used in a visual? If so, how to achieved that one?

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Can you please provide some more context on your current usecase?

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OfirM
by New Contributor
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spark.databricks.optimizer.replaceWindowsWithAggregates.enabled

I have seen in the release notes of 15.3 that this was introduced and couldn't wrap my head around it.Does someone has an example of a plan before and after?Quote:Performance improvement for some window functionsThis release includes a change that im...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Before Optimization: Consider a query that calculates the sum of a column value partitioned by category without an ORDER BY clause or a window_frame parameter:   SELECT category, SUM(value) OVER (PARTITION BY category) AS total_value FROM sales;  ...

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rk2511
by New Contributor
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Access Each Input Item of a For Each Task

I have two tasks. The first task (Sample_Notebook) returns a JSON array (Input_List). Sample data in Input_List['key1':value1, 'key2':value2, 'key3':value3]The second task is a "For Each" task that executes a notebook for each entry in the Input_List...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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To access each item of the iteration within the notebook of the second task in your Databricks workflow, you need to utilize the parameterization feature of the For Each task. Instead of trying to retrieve the entire list using dbutils.jobs.taskValue...

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hank12345
by New Contributor
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Resolved! Lakehouse federation support for Oracle DB

https://docs.databricks.com/en/query-federation/index.htmlAre there plans to provide Oracle support for Databricks on AWS lakehouse federation? Not sure if that's possible or not. Thanks!

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PiotrU
Contributor II
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Federation with Oracle is available https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/query-federation/oracle

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maoruales32
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Point map datapoints labels

Point map visualization datapoints labels do not let me input a specific column on them

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Previously replied in https://community.databricks.com/t5/warehousing-analytics/datapoints-labels-on-a-point-map-visualization/td-p/101839 

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aburkh
by New Contributor
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User default timezone (SQL)

Users get confused when querying data with timestamps because UTC is not intuitive for many. It is possible to set TIME ZONE at query level or at SQL Warehouse level, but those options fail to address the need of multiple users working on the same wa...

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Alberto_Umana
Databricks Employee
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it is possible to set the time zone at the session level using the SET TIME ZONE statement in Databricks SQL. This allows users to control the local timezone used for timestamp operations within their session. However, there is no direct option of us...

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