Hey Databricks Community! Join us for a free, community-sponsored BrickTalk on Thursday, August 20, 2026! BrickTalks is a community event series where Databricks experts share real-world use cases, demos, and practical insights for building with data...
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New in Community Say hello to the Genie Hub Your questions about Databricks Genie, answered by the people actually building with it. Ask the community anything about Genie… Ask → Genie runs on plain-language conversation - you ask, it answers f...
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Help Your Knowledge Reach More People Every Technical Blog, Community Article, MVP article, or answer you share can help someone beyond the Databricks Community. Small improvements in how you write can make your content easier to discover through C...
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Our Community Champion Program has always been about recognizing individuals who consistently show up to support others, share their expertise, and strengthen the Databricks Community. Alongside our customers, we’re equally proud to recognize the inc...
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In programmatic advertising, the value of an impression depends on whether an ad is viewed by a user. The Real-Time Bidding Optimization Solution Accelerator shows how to predict ad viewability and use those insights to optimize bidding strategies, m...
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The Weekly Digest • July 20 – August 2 Community Pulse From technical deep-dives to trending discussions – your community digest is here. OUR STANDOUT COMMUNITY STARS Celebrating the members who made a difference this period : @balajij8 @bin...
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Multi-fact Star Schema patterns in Databricks
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Thanks you for the summary @KrisJohannesen. It's great to know what is possible, but it all still feels like a workaround. I really hope that Chao Cai's response means that we will real have multi-fact support in metric views.
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Finally someone touching this important topic - I see great interest in migrating semantic layer from power bi to databricks, but lack of true multi-fact support is a major blocker in my opinion and therefore I'm cooling down the enthusiasm ;-). @Kri...
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Congratulations Databricks Partners! You're Now Officially Recognized in the Databricks Community
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Hi @Rishabh_Tiwari I’m a Databricks Partner, but I don’t see the Partner badge on my profile. Could you please check and let me know how I can get it enabled?
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AI/BI Dashboard pivot export: Excel
Hey, currently we have an AI/BI Dashboard pivot table with a row hierarchy such as: outlet->date->dayIn the dashboard, users can expand/collapse the hierarchy and may be viewing only the top-level outlet aggregation.However, when downloading the pivo...
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How to manage SQL queries for business data extraction in Databricks?
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The catalog table generally adds maintenance overhead in manual cases as it can drift out of sync with actual queries if managed manually. Databricks capabilities might be enough as you can use Workspace search (searches across query names and conten...
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How Can I Analyze Gaming Website Traffic and Search Trends with Databricks?
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Databricks has a lot of useful material for getting started, especially if you’re new to the platform. I’d recommend beginning with the basic workspace and notebook concepts, then moving on to Spark, SQL, and Delta Lake once you’re comfortable with t...
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Upcoming Community BrickTalk: Mastering Databricks Genie Capabilities
Hey Databricks Community! Join us for a free, community-sponsored BrickTalk on Thursday, August 20, 2026! BrickTalks is a community event series where Databricks experts share real-world use cases, demos, and practical insights for building with data...
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Disabling Change Tracking and enabling Change Data Capture in SQL Server Lakeflow
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Hi @kfadratek ,Yes, an Azure Key Vault (AKV) backed scope will work, but Databricks has to resolve it automatically in the background.The UI is built to write secrets. Since AKV scopes are read-only from the Databricks side, the UI won't let you map ...
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Is VARIANT supported in Databricks-to-Open sharing?
I can't find exact documentation on whether VARIANT is supported for Databricks-to-Open sharing.. Any information is welcome
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@yit337 Yes, it is supported as there's no such limitation in the docs.https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/tables/features/variant
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From 40 Minutes to 8 minutes: Why We Dropped MERGE in Our SAP BW to Databricks Gold Layer
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Google Drive ingestion pipeline failing – “Google Drive file system is not enabled”
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Lakeflow Connect for Google Drive requires Serverless Compute and Unity Catalog Account-level feature flags. Databricks Community / Free Edition runs on a restricted, shared classic compute environment where Lakeflow Connect preview connectors and se...
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Solution: Simplify Genie Agent Instruction Updates Across Multiple Spaces
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Resolved! Databricks Delivery expert badge
Hi Team,I recently learned that there are Delivery Expert badges available, and I'm interested in earning them. Could someone please guide me on where I can find the information or links to get started?Thanks in advance!
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@Niyojit Delivery Expert Program is Partner only exclusive. If your organisation is one, login the Partner Dashboard and you'll find it there.
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Ticket Escalation: Request for Certificate & Webassessor Name Correction (Case #00980951)
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@Salam7 Check with Webassessor team. Login to your profile and rename. Though this doesn't impact much as far as you could proof the owner and skiils.
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