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2 years ago
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DataflowGen2 on MS Fabric: Optimize column profiling on millions of rows (1-5mil)

Hello,  I have datasets residing on hive_metastore of Azure Databricks storage, in the range of 1-5 millions of records. I wish to use the Column Profiling feature on the entire dataset after load...
  • miguel's avatar
    2 years ago

    This is something that we don't have full control over. It relies on 3 specific components:

    • Data source: and the resources available for it
    • Connector: owned by the Databricks team
    • Power Query editor: it effectively runs the queries that the connector tells it to run and it tries to later cache the results if they're fully computed

    I can pass your feedback to the Databricks team, but there's nothing beyond what you're doing today that can impact the performance of the profiling for such scenario.