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Azure Databricks Cookbook

You're reading from  Azure Databricks Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789809718
Pages 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Phani Raj Phani Raj
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Vinod Jaiswal Vinod Jaiswal
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Creating an Azure Databricks Service 2. Chapter 2: Reading and Writing Data from and to Various Azure Services and File Formats 3. Chapter 3: Understanding Spark Query Execution 4. Chapter 4: Working with Streaming Data 5. Chapter 5: Integrating with Azure Key Vault, App Configuration, and Log Analytics 6. Chapter 6: Exploring Delta Lake in Azure Databricks 7. Chapter 7: Implementing Near-Real-Time Analytics and Building a Modern Data Warehouse 8. Chapter 8: Databricks SQL 9. Chapter 9: DevOps Integrations and Implementing CI/CD for Azure Databricks 10. Chapter 10: Understanding Security and Monitoring in Azure Databricks 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Constraints in Delta tables

Delta tables support constraints to ensure data integrity and quality. When the constraint conditions are not met by the data then InvariantViolationException is thrown, and data is not added to the table.

The following types of constraints are supported by the Delta table:

  • CHECK: Evaluate a given Boolean expression for each input row.
  • NOT NULL: Check that the column under constraint does not have a null value.

Getting ready

Before starting we need to ensure that we have a valid subscription with contributor access, a Databricks workspace, and an ADLS Gen2 storage account.

You can follow along by running the steps in the 6_6.Constraints notebook in the https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Azure-Databricks-Cookbook/blob/main/Chapter06/6_6.Constraints.ipynb. Upload the file to Customer folder in the rawdata container in your ADLS Gen-2 account which is mounted.

CustomerwithNullCName.csv file has 4 rows and one row has C_NAME as...

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