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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 92

Full Outer Join Reconciliation

How do we reconcile records from two independent accounting ledgers to detect unmatched entries on both sides?

Intermediateโฑ 2 Minutesโญ 440 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How do we reconcile records from two independent accounting ledgers to detect unmatched entries on both sides?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

source_a.join(source_b, 'account_id', 'full') retains all rows from both tables, populating nulls where keys do not match.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Financial ledger reconciliation, master data management audits, and data migration verification.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
reconciled_df = source_a.join(source_b, "account_id", "full")

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Full Outer Join Reconciliation.

  • โœ“ Execute full outer join
  • โœ“ Retain all records from both sources
  • โœ“ Enable comprehensive ledger reconciliation