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What would it take for you to trust your Databricks pipelines in production?

A 3-day bug hunt on a 3-person team costs up to €7,200 in lost engineering time. This workshop teaches you to prevent that β€” unit tests, data tests, and integration tests for PySpark and Databricks Lakeflow, including Spark Declarative Pipelines.

Unit, data & integration tests
Medallion architecture & Lakeflow SDP
Max 10 participants Β· production-ready templates
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Bartosz Konieczny
Bartosz
Konieczny

Wide rows in column-oriented stores

Big Data enforces denormalized storage. Joins are costly and it's often much more efficient to store all related information in a single row. Such rows with a lot of columns are called wide rows and they'll be explained in the sections below.

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