Append output is not supported without a watermark

Append output mode is not supported on aggregated DataFrames without a watermark....

Apache Spark DStream is not supported

DStreams are not supported in Databricks. Migrate from DStream API to Structured Streaming....

Streaming with File Sink: Problems with recovery if you change checkpoint or output directories

Learn how to resolve issues that occur with recovery if you change checkpoint or output directories when streaming with File Sink....

Get the path of files consumed by Auto Loader

Get the path and filename of all files consumed by Auto Loader and write them out as a new column....

How to restart a structured streaming query from last written offset

Learn how to restart a structured streaming query from the last written offset....

Kafka error: No resolvable bootstrap urls

A 'No resolvable bootstrap urls' error occurs when you try to read or write data to a Kafka stream....

readStream() is not whitelisted error when running a query

readStream() is not whitelisted error on clusters that have table access control enabled....

Checkpoint files not being deleted when using display()

Learn how to prevent display(streamingDF) checkpoint files from using a large amount of storage....

Checkpoint files not being deleted when using foreachBatch()

Learn how to prevent foreachBatch() checkpoint files from using a large amount of storage....

Conflicting directory structures error

You should use distinct paths in the storage location, otherwise conflicting directory structures may result in an error....

RocksDB fails to acquire a lock

When using RocksDB as a state store, you may need to increase the acquire timeout in the SQL config....

Stream XML files using an auto-loader

Stream XML files on Databricks by combining the auto-loading features of the Spark batch API with the OSS library Spark-XML....

Streaming job gets stuck writing to checkpoint

Streaming job appears to be stuck even though no error is thrown. You are using DBFS for checkpoint storage, but it has filled up....

Explicit path to data or a defined schema required for Auto loader

If you do not specify an explicit path to your data or define your data schema, you get an IllegalArgumentException error when you start an Auto loader job....

Optimize streaming transactions with .trigger

Use .trigger to define the storage update interval. A higher value reduces the number of storage transactions....

Structured streaming jobs slow down on every 10th batch

Automatic compaction of the metadata folder can slow down structured streaming jobs....

Get last modification time for all files in Auto Loader and batch jobs

Define a UDF to list all files in the path and return the last modification time for each one....