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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 89

Inner Join Operations

How do we combine orders with customer records keeping only rows present in both datasets?

Intermediateโฑ 2 Minutesโญ 410 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How do we combine orders with customer records keeping only rows present in both datasets?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

orders.join(customers, 'customer_id', 'inner') retains records matching on the shared customer_id key in both tables.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Connecting transactional records with active entity profiles across relational data models.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
joined_df = orders.join(customers, "customer_id", "inner")

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Inner Join Operations.

  • โœ“ Execute inner join on common key
  • โœ“ Merge order and customer records
  • โœ“ Produce unified relational dataset