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akkibuddy7
Helper I
Helper I

Load txt pole (|) separated file to delta table

fabric is giving error when loading txt file with pole separated to delta table. any idea how to load such files?

 

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nilendraFabric
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Super User

Hello @akkibuddy7 

 

You cannot use load to table option with | delimited files. That option is for csv

 

you have to use spark notebook to load to tables

 

df = spark.read.format("csv") \
.option("header", "true") \ # Set to 'false' if no header row exists
.option("delimiter", "|") \
.load("/path/to/your/file.txt")

 

df.write.format("delta").mode("overwrite").saveAsTable("table_name")

If this is helpful please accept the answer and give kudos

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nilendraFabric
Super User
Super User

Hello @akkibuddy7 

 

You cannot use load to table option with | delimited files. That option is for csv

 

you have to use spark notebook to load to tables

 

df = spark.read.format("csv") \
.option("header", "true") \ # Set to 'false' if no header row exists
.option("delimiter", "|") \
.load("/path/to/your/file.txt")

 

df.write.format("delta").mode("overwrite").saveAsTable("table_name")

If this is helpful please accept the answer and give kudos

is there any approch for incremental data? if S3 txt gets updated , will have to again run the dataframe to pull updated table and that's bit tedious job. 

Realized few min back the same appoch ! but your code solves the issue Thanks again!

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