Madhavan

# Description [SPARKC-683](https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/browse/SPARKC-683) Bump up DSE & OSS C* versions the latest ## How did the Spark Cassandra Connector Work or Not Work Before this Patch SCC was testing with...

Support connecting to DataStax Astra™ beginning [DataStax Java Driver 3.8+](https://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/java-driver/3.10/manual/cloud/) Helpful 4.x version reference: https://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/java-driver/4.9/manual/cloud/

Upgrade DataStax Java Driver to 4.x series. Helpful Resources: - [Upgrade Guide](https://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/java-driver/4.9/upgrade_guide/) - [Better drivers for Cassandra](https://www.datastax.com/blog/2020/01/better-drivers-for-cassandra)

**Describe the bug** Filtering by a specific tag. If we have a workload file structured as below: ``` description: ... scenarios: ... bindings: ... blocks: - tags: phase: something_else type:...

**What is the ideal scenario for using this feature?** Quickly be able to [swap between the available capacity modes (read & write) on a table](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/APIReference/API_UpdateTable.html) for various purposes. **Is your...

[`sperf core schema`](https://github.com/DataStax-Toolkit/sperf/blob/main/pysper/core/schema.py) incorrectly categorizes SAI and SASI indexes as Solr indexes. For examples all the below are currently considered as Solr Index: - `CREATE CUSTOM INDEX sasi_index_01 ON ks1.tbl1...

**Describe the bug** Whenever within a workload block doesn't contain a properly formatted/spec'd JSON, NB should give an user-friendly error. ``` blocks: block1: ops: block1-op: | { "poorly: formatted/indedted json...

**Describe the bug** When a scenario errors, we get this at the very end, ``` 4518 INFO [main] NBCLI executions: 1 scenarios, 0 normal, 1 errored 4518 WARN [main] NBCLI...

CyclesSpec This cycles interval means zero total:null..null

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**Describe the bug** When `cycles=UNDEF` is used in the named scenarios, we get this below warning, ``` WARN [scenarios:001] CyclesSpec This cycles interval means zero total:null..null ``` **To Reproduce** `15.7.5`...

Feature: Implement connection retry logic in JDBC driver

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**What is the ideal scenario for using this feature?** During rolling upgrades, the PostgreSQL-compatible databases issues `08006 An I/O error occurred while sending to the backend`. So the application has...