hours

Partition transform function: A transform for timestamps to partition data into hours. Supports Spark Connect.

warning

Deprecated in 4.0.0. Use partitioning.hours instead.

Syntax

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.hours(col=<col>)

Parameter	Type	Description
`col`	`pyspark.sql.Column` or `str`	Target date or timestamp column to work on.

pyspark.sql.Column: Data partitioned by hours.

Python
df.writeTo("catalog.db.table").partitionedBy(
    hours("ts")
).createOrReplace()

note

This function can be used only in combination with the partitionedBy method of the DataFrameWriterV2.