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Hey,
I am trying to get Azure Fabric Notebook to work with VS Code using the Synapse Visual Studio Code Extension as described in: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/data-engineering/setup-vs-code-extension
I managed to install the prerequisites, my Java -version and conda --version both show that the path settings are set correctly. I installed the Synapse VS Code extension is VS Code. When launching VS Code I see the "fabric-synapse-runtime-1-1" and "fabric-synapse-runtime-1-2" are both created.
When I try to run a simple cell I get the message:
# Load Data from LH
df = spark.sql("SELECT * FROM TestLH.test")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 2
1 # Load Data from LH
----> 2 afas_df = spark.sql("SELECT * FROM TestLH.test")
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'sql'
I have tried to install the package "pyspark" to see if it would resolve the issue, but it did not fix anything. When checking the logs of the notebook I see the following Error, besides a lot of Info messages:
10:43:57,960 root ERROR Failed to initialize Spark Lighter variables. Create session failed {'code': 'InternalError', 'subCode': 0, 'message': 'An internal error occurred.', 'timeStamp': '2024-08-02T08:43:57.1685726Z', 'httpStatusCode': 500, 'hresult': -2147467259, 'details': [{'code': 'RootActivityId', 'message': '9cf56fb4-67f6-425a-a43d-aeaad0768bca'}, {'code': 'Param1', 'message': 'Response status code does not indicate success: 430 ().'}]}
Can anyone of you perhaps give me some advice to fix my issue of not being able to run my cell? Thanks in advance!
Hi @Anonymous
We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you have a resolution yet.
In case if you have any resolution please do share that with the community as it can be helpful to others.
Otherwise, will respond back with the more details and we will try to help.
Best Regards,
Jing
I got the same error but finally got it work at my end. I have recorded all my steps in another thread, please refer to Re: spark not defined using VSCode Synapse Extensi... - Microsoft Fabric Community Hope it would be helpful to anyone who may encounter the same error.
Best Regards,
Jing
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Hi @Anonymous
Sorry for the late response. Does this error still happen? Have you found a solution to it?
Best Regards,
Jing
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