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Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark · Databricks
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- repartition(n) performs a full shuffle, redistributing data uniformly into n partitions. coalesce(n) merges existing partitions without a full shuffle, so it can only decrease partition count (efficiently). Use coalesce before write to reduce tiny files; repartition when you need balanced partitions or more parallelism.