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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 97

Filtering Unmatched Rows with Anti Join

How do we find customers who have NOT placed any recent orders using a left_anti join?

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๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How do we find customers who have NOT placed any recent orders using a left_anti join?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

left_anti returns only records from the left DataFrame that have NO match in the right DataFrame.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Customer churn detection, finding orphaned foreign keys, and identifying missing data syncs.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
churned_customers = customers.join(recent_orders, "customer_id", "left_anti")

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Filtering Unmatched Rows with Anti Join.

  • โœ“ Execute left_anti join
  • โœ“ Isolate churned or inactive customers
  • โœ“ Exclude matching transactional records