Create External table in Azure databricks - azure

I am new to azure databricks and trying to create an external table, pointing to Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen-2 location.
From databricks notebook i have tried to set the spark configuration for ADLS access. Still i am unable to execute the DDL created.
Note: One solution working for me is mounting the ADLS account to cluster and then use the mount location in external table's DDL. But i needed to check if it is possible to create a external table DDL with ADLS path without mount location.
# Using Principal credentials
spark.conf.set("dfs.azure.account.auth.type", "OAuth")
spark.conf.set("dfs.azure.account.oauth.provider.type", "ClientCredential")
spark.conf.set("dfs.azure.account.oauth2.client.id", "client_id")
spark.conf.set("dfs.azure.account.oauth2.client.secret", "client_secret")
spark.conf.set("dfs.azure.account.oauth2.client.endpoint",
"https://login.microsoftonline.com/tenant_id/oauth2/token")
DDL
create external table test(
id string,
name string
)
partitioned by (pt_batch_id bigint, pt_file_id integer)
STORED as parquet
location 'abfss://container#account_name.dfs.core.windows.net/dev/data/employee
Error Received
Error in SQL statement: AnalysisException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: MetaException(message:Got exception: shaded.databricks.v20180920_b33d810.org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.contracts.exceptions.ConfigurationPropertyNotFoundException Configuration property account_name.dfs.core.windows.net not found.);
I need help in knowing if this is possible to refer to ADLS location directly in DDL?
Thanks.

Sort of if you can use Python (or Scala).
Start by making the connection:
TenantID = "blah"
def connectLake():
spark.conf.set("fs.azure.account.auth.type", "OAuth")
spark.conf.set("fs.azure.account.oauth.provider.type", "org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.oauth2.ClientCredsTokenProvider")
spark.conf.set("fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.id", dbutils.secrets.get(scope = "LIQUIX", key = "lake-sp"))
spark.conf.set("fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.secret", dbutils.secrets.get(scope = "LIQUIX", key = "lake-key"))
spark.conf.set("fs.azure.account.oauth2.client.endpoint", "https://login.microsoftonline.com/"+TenantID+"/oauth2/token")
connectLake()
lakePath = "abfss://liquix#mystorageaccount.dfs.core.windows.net/"
Using Python you can register a table using:
spark.sql("CREATE TABLE DimDate USING PARQUET LOCATION '"+lakePath+"/PRESENTED/DIMDATE/V1'")
You can now query that table if you have executed the connectLake() function - which is fine in your current session/notebook.
The problem is now if a new session comes in and they try select * from that table it will fail unless they run the connectLake() function first. There is no way around that limitation as you have to prove credentials to access the lake.
You may want to consider ADLS Gen2 credential pass through: https://docs.azuredatabricks.net/spark/latest/data-sources/azure/adls-passthrough.html
Note that this requires using a High Concurrency cluster.

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Databricks - transfer data from one databricks workspace to another

How can I transform my data in databricks workspace 1 (DBW1) and then push it (send/save the table) to another databricks workspace (DBW2)?
On the DBW1 I installed this JDBC driver.
Then I tried:
(df.write
.format("jdbc")
.options(
url="jdbc:spark://<DBW2-url>:443/default;transportMode=http;ssl=1;httpPath=<http-path-of-cluster>;AuthMech=3;UID=<uid>;PWD=<pat>",
driver="com.simba.spark.jdbc.Driver",
dbtable="default.fromDBW1"
)
.save()
)
However, when I run it I get:
java.sql.SQLException: [Simba][SparkJDBCDriver](500051) ERROR processing query/statement. Error Code: 0, SQL state: org.apache.hive.service.cli.HiveSQLException: Error running query: org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.parser.ParseException:
How to do this correctly?
Note: each DBW is in different subscription.
From my point of view, the more scalable way would be to write directly into ADLS instead of using JDBC. But this needs to be done as following:
You need to have a separate storage account for your data. Anyway, use of DBFS Root for storage of the actual data isn't recommended as it's not accessible from outside - that makes things, like, migration, more complicated.
You need to have a way to access that storage account (ADLS or Blob storage). You can use access data directly (via abfss:// or wasbs:// URLs)
In the target workspace you just create a table for your data written - so called unmanaged table. Just do (see doc):
create table <name>
using delta
location 'path_or_url_to data'

How to access one databricks delta tables from other databricks

I want to access one Databricks environment delta tables from other Databricks environment by creating global Hive meta store in one of the Databricks. Let me know if it is possible or not.
Thanks in advance.
There are two aspects here:
The data itself - they should be available to other workspaces - this is done by having a shared storage account/container, and writing data into it. You can either mount that storage account, or use direct access (via service principal or AAD passtrough) - you shouldn't write data to built-in DBFS Root that isn't available to other workspaces. After you write the data using dataframe.write.format("delta").save("some_path_on_adls"), you can read these data from another workspace that has access to that shared workspace - this could be done either
via Spark API: spark.read.format("delta").load("some_path_on_adls")
via SQL using following syntax instead of table name (see docs):
delta.`some_path_on_adls`
The metadata - if you want to represent saved data as SQL tables with database & table names instead of path, then you can use following choices:
Use the built-in metastore to save data into location on ADLS, and then create so-called external table in another workspace inside its own metastore. In the source workspace do:
dataframe.write.format("delta").option("path", "some_path_on_adls")\
.saveAsTable("db_name.table_name")
and in another workspace execute following SQL (either via %sql in notebook or via spark.sql function:
CREATE TABLE db_name.table_name USING DELTA LOCATION 'some_path_on_adls'
Use external metastore that is shared by multiple workspaces - in this case you just need to save data correctly:
dataframe.write.format("delta").option("path", "some_path_on_adls")\
.saveAsTable("db_name.table_name")
you still need to save it into shared location, so the data is accessible from another workspace, but you don't need to register the table explicitly, as another workspace will read the metadata from the same database.

Azure Databricks : Mount delta table used in another workspace

Currently I have an azure databricks instance where I have the following
myDF.withColumn("created_on", current_timestamp())\
.writeStream\
.format("delta")\
.trigger(processingTime= triggerDuration)\
.outputMode("append")\
.option("checkpointLocation", "/mnt/datalake/_checkpoint_Position")\
.option("path", "/mnt/datalake/DeltaData")\
.partitionBy("col1", "col2", "col3", "col4", "col5")\
.table("deltadata")
This is saving the data into a storage account as blobs.
Now, I'm trying to connect to this table from another azure databricks workspace and my first "move" is the mount to the azure storage account:
dbutils.fs.mount(
source = sourceString,
mountPoint = "/mnt/data",
extraConfigs = Map(confKey -> sasKey)
Note: sourceString, confKey and sasKey are not shown for obvious reasons, in any case the mount works fine.
And then I try to create the table, but I get an error:
CREATE TABLE delta_data USING DELTA LOCATION '/mnt/data/DeltaData/'
Error in SQL statement: AnalysisException:
You are trying to create an external table `default`.`delta_data`
from `/mnt/data/DeltaData` using Databricks Delta, but the schema is not specified when the
input path is empty.
According to the documentation the schema should be picked up from the existing data correct?
Also, I trying to do this in a different workspace because the idea is to give only read access to people.
It seems my issue was the mount. It did not give any error while creating it but was not working fine. I discovered this after trying:
dbutils.fs.ls("/mnt/data/DeltaData")
Which was not showing anything. I unmounted and reviewed all the configs and after that it worked.

Hive external tables map to azure blob storage

Is there a way to create a Hive external table using with location pointing to Azure Storage? We actually want to connect SAP HANA (SDA) to blob storage, so it seems the only way is to create an external hive table first which points to Azure blob storage and then use Hive ODBC connector/spark connectorto connect it toHANA SAP`. Does anyone have any idea how to achieve that?
You can create external tables in Hive or Spark on Azure. There are several options available:
Azure HDInsight
Azure Databricks (via Spark)
Hadoop distros supporting Azure Blob Storage (e. g. HDP)
External table creation would reference the data in the Blob storage account. See the following example for a Hive table created in HDInsight (wasb is used in the location):
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS <database name>.<external textfile table name>
(
field1 string,
field2 int,
...
fieldN date
)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '<field separator>'
lines terminated by '<line separator>' STORED AS TEXTFILE
LOCATION 'wasb:///<directory in Azure blob>'
TBLPROPERTIES("skip.header.line.count"="1");
or in Azure Databricks:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS my_table (name STRING, age INT)
COMMENT 'This table is created with existing data'
LOCATION 'wasbs://<storage-account#<containername>.blob.core.windows.net/<directory>'
See also:
HDInsight Documentation
Azure Databricks Documentation
I don' t know what SAP supports. ODBC-Access is possible to all of the solutions.

Azure Data Lake Store as EXTERNAL TABLE in Databricks

How can I create an EXTERNAL TABLE in Azure Databricks which reads from Azure Data Lake Store? I am having trouble seeing in the documentation if it is even possible. I have a set of CSV files in a specific folder in Azure Data lake Store, and I want to do a CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE in Azure Databricks which points to the CSV files.
1. Reference mounted directories
You can mount the Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) to Azure Databricks DBFS (requires 4.0 runtime or higher):
# Get Azure Data Lake Store credentials from the secret store
clientid = dbutils.preview.secret.get(scope = "adls", key = "clientid")
credential = dbutils.preview.secret.get(scope = "adls", key = "credential")
refreshurl = dbutils.preview.secret.get(scope = "adls", key = "refreshurl")
accounturl = dbutils.preview.secret.get(scope = "adls", key = "accounturl")
# Mount the ADLS
configs = {"dfs.adls.oauth2.access.token.provider.type": "ClientCredential",
"dfs.adls.oauth2.client.id": clientid,
"dfs.adls.oauth2.credential": credential,
"dfs.adls.oauth2.refresh.url": refreshurl}
dbutils.fs.mount(
source = accounturl,
mount_point = "/mnt/adls",
extra_configs = configs)
Table creation works the same way as with DBFS. Just reference the mountpoint with the directory in ADLS, e. g.:
%sql
CREATE TABLE product
USING CSV
OPTIONS (header "true", inferSchema "true")
LOCATION "/mnt/adls/productscsv/"
The location clause automatically implies EXTERNAL. See also Azure Databricks Documentation.
2. Reference the Data Lake Store in the table definition directly
You can also reference the storage directly without mounting the storage. This scenario makes sense if the metadata or parts of the code are also used in other platforms. In this scenario access to the storage has to be defined on the cluster or notebook level (see this Databricks documentation for ADLS Gen1 or this documentation for Gen2 configuration details) or Azure AD Credential Passthrough is used.
The table definition would look like this for ADLS Gen1:
CREATE TABLE sampletable
(L_ORDERKEY BIGINT,
L_PARTKEY BIGINT,
L_SUPPKEY BIGINT,
L_SHIPMODE STRING,
L_COMMENT STRING)
USING csv
OPTIONS ('DELIMITER' '|')
LOCATION "adl://<your adls>.azuredatalakestore.net/directory1/sampletable"
;
For Azure Data Lake Gen2 the location reference looks like:
LOCATION "abfss://<file_system>#<account_name.dfs.core.windows.net/directory/tablename"
you should consider looking at this link: https://docs.azuredatabricks.net/spark/latest/data-sources/azure/azure-datalake.html
Access Azure Data Lake Store using the Spark API
To read from your Data Lake Store account, you can configure Spark to use service credentials with the following snippet in your notebook:
spark.conf.set("dfs.adls.oauth2.access.token.provider.type", "ClientCredential")
spark.conf.set("dfs.adls.oauth2.client.id", "{YOUR SERVICE CLIENT ID}")
spark.conf.set("dfs.adls.oauth2.credential", "{YOUR SERVICE CREDENTIALS}")
spark.conf.set("dfs.adls.oauth2.refresh.url", "https://login.microsoftonline.com/{YOUR DIRECTORY ID}/oauth2/token")
It doesn't mention the use of External Table.

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