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How to get all occurrences of duplicate records in a PySpark DataFrame based on specific columns?

I need to find all occurrences of duplicate records in a PySpark DataFrame. Following is the sample dataset:

# Prepare Data
data = [("A", "A", 1), \
    ("A", "A", 2), \
    ("A", "A", 3), \
    ("A", "B", 4), \
    ("A", "B", 5), \
    ("A", "C", 6), \
    ("A", "D", 7), \
    ("A", "E", 8), \
  ]

# Create DataFrame
columns= ["col_1", "col_2", "col_3"]
df = spark.createDataFrame(data = data, schema = columns)
df.show(truncate=False)

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When I try the following code:

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primary_key = ['col_1', 'col_2']
duplicate_records = df.exceptAll(df.dropDuplicates(primary_key))
duplicate_records.show()

The output will be:

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As you can see, I don’t get all occurrences of duplicate records based on the Primary Key since one instance of duplicate records is present in "df.dropDuplicates(primary_key)". The 1st and the 4th records of the dataset must be in the output.

Any idea to solve this issue?

>Solution :

The reason you cant see 1st and the 4th records is dropduplicate keep one of each duplicates. see the code below:

primary_key = ['col_1', 'col_2']
df.dropDuplicates(primary_key).show()
+-----+-----+-----+
|col_1|col_2|col_3|
+-----+-----+-----+
|    A|    A|    1|
|    A|    B|    4|
|    A|    C|    6|
|    A|    D|    7|
|    A|    E|    8|
+-----+-----+-----+

For your task you can extract duplicated keys and join it with your main dataframe:

duplicated_keys = (
    df
    .groupby(primary_key)
    .count()
    .filter(F.col('count') > 1)
    .drop(F.col('count'))
)

(
    df
    .join(F.broadcast(duplicated_keys), primary_key)
).show()
+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|col_1|col_2|col_3|count|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|    A|    A|    1|    3|
|    A|    A|    2|    3|
|    A|    A|    3|    3|
|    A|    B|    4|    2|
|    A|    B|    5|    2|
+-----+-----+-----+-----+
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