Will using a broadcast join resolve the scenario, and can you provide the syntax for it?

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Yes, if one of the tables is small enough to fit in executor memory, a broadcast join will eliminate the shuffle and speed up the join. In PySpark you can write:

```python
from pyspark.sql.functions import broadcast

# df_small is the small table
# df_large is the large table
joined = df_large.join(broadcast(df_small), on='key', how='inner')
```

Alternatively, use a hint:

```python
joined = df_large.join(df_small.hint('broadcast'), on='key', how='inner')
```

You can also set the broadcast threshold globally:

```python
spark.conf.set('spark.sql.autoBroadcastJoinThreshold', 10485760)  # 10 MB
```

These snippets will broadcast the small DataFrame to all executors, avoiding a costly shuffle and resolving the performance issue for the described scenario.

Will using a broadcast join resolve the scenario, and can you provide the syntax for it?

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