Pooja Khanna

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Senior data engineer DE working on Kafka. Interested in interview prep.

Chandigarh, Punjab5–10 years1 questions2 answers

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Broadcast join silently falls back to sort-merge, how do you actually tell

Added a broadcast(dim_table) hint expecting a broadcast join, but the job runtime didn't change at all. Suspect it's silently ignoring the hint. How do you confirm which join strategy actually ran?

Apache Sparksparkbroadcast-join