The stakeholders.customers table has 15 columns and 3,000 rows of data. The following command is run:
After running SELECT * FROM stakeholders.eur_customers, 15 rows are returned. After the command executes completely, the user logs out of Databricks.
After logging back in two days later, what is the status of the stakeholders.eur_customers view?
- The view remains available and SELECT * FROM stakeholders.eur_customers will execute correctly.
- The view has been dropped.
- The view is not available in the metastore, but the underlying data can be accessed with SELECT * FROM delta. `stakeholders.eur_customers`.
- The view remains available but attempting to SELECT from it results in an empty result set because data in views are automatically deleted after logging out.
- The view has been converted into a table.
Answer(s): B
Explanation:
The command you sent creates a TEMP VIEW, which is a type of view that is only visible and accessible to the session that created it.
When the session ends or the user logs out, the TEMP VIEW is automatically dropped and cannot be queried anymore. Therefore, after logging back in two days later, the status of the stakeholders.eur_customers view is that it has been dropped and SELECT * FROM stakeholders.eur_customers will result in an error. The other options are not correct because:
A) The view does not remain available, as it is a TEMP VIEW that is dropped when the session ends or the user logs out.
C) The view is not available in the metastore, as it is a TEMP VIEW that is not registered in the metastore. The underlying data cannot be accessed with SELECT * FROM delta. stakeholders.eur_customers, as this is not a valid syntax for querying a Delta Lake table. The correct syntax would be SELECT * FROM delta.dbfs:/stakeholders/eur_customers, where the location path is enclosed in backticks. However, this would also result in an error, as the TEMP VIEW does not write any data to the file system and the location path does not exist.
D) The view does not remain available, as it is a TEMP VIEW that is dropped when the session ends or the user logs out. Data in views are not automatically deleted after logging out, as views do not store any data. They are only logical representations of queries on base tables or other views.
E) The view has not been converted into a table, as there is no automatic conversion between views and tables in Databricks. To create a table from a view, you need to use a CREATE TABLE AS statement or a similar command.
Reference:
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