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Title: How to handle type widening (int→bigint) in DLT streaming tables without dropping the table
SetupBronze source table (external to DLT, CDF & type widening enabled):# Source table properties:# delta.enableChangeDataFeed: "true"# delta.enableDeletionVectors: "true"# delta.enableTypeWidening: "true"# delta.minReaderVersion: "3"# delta.minWrite...
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Version 1.1: Data Isolation and Governance within PySpark DataFrame's
See the comments below for a runnable notebookThroughout my career I have worked at several companies that handle sensitive data; including PII, PHI, EMR, HIPPA, Class I/II/III FOMC - Internal (FR). One entity I worked at even required a Department O...
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Flexible Node Types
Recently, it has not only become difficult to get a quota in some regions, but even if you have one, it doesn't mean that there are available VMs. Even if you have a quota, you may need to move your bundles to a different subscription when different ...
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Iceberg interoperability between Databricks and external catalogs
I would like to understand the current approach for Iceberg interoperability in Databricks. Databricks supports Iceberg using Unity Catalog, but many teams also use Iceberg tables managed outside Databricks. Are there recommended patterns today for s...
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Unable to read from or write to Snowflake Open Catalog via Databricks
I have Snowflake Iceberg tables whose metadata is stored in Snowflake Open Catalog. I am trying to read these tables from the Open Catalog and write back to the Open Catalog using Databricks.I have explored the available documentation but haven’t bee...
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Databricks does not currently provide official support to read from or write to Snowflake Open Catalog. Although Snowflake Open Catalog is compatible with the Iceberg REST catalog and open source Spark can work with it, this integration is not suppor...
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Resolved! Public DBFS root is disabled in Databricks free edition
I am using notebook to execute a sample spark to write delta table in dbfs using free edition. However, I face an issue, that I can not access the public DBFS after the code executed.The spark code such as:data = spark.range(0, 5)data.write.format("d...
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Yes , use UCVolumes instead of DBFS. As Databricks moves toward a serverless architecture, DBFS access is being increasingly restricted and is not intended for long term or production usage. UC Volumes are a better choice than DBFS.
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Meta Ads is now a native data source in Databricks Lakeflow Connect
Meta Ads is now a native data source in DatabricksDatabricks just announced a Meta Ads connector (Beta) powered by Lakeflow Connect, making it easy to ingest advertising data directly into Databricks—no custom APIs, no CSV exports, no brittle scripts...
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Great update : this is a big win for analytics teams.The new Meta Ads native connector (Beta) in Databricks, powered by Lakeflow Connect, significantly reduces the operational burden that typically comes with ad-tech ingestion.Excited to see Lakeflo...
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Resolved! Can anyone share Databricks security model documentation or best practice references
Can anyone share Databricks security model documentation or best-practice references
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Sharing a few official Databricks security model and best-practice references that are widely used across enterprise implementations: Core Databricks Security ModelDatabricks Account & Workspace ArchitectureCovers account-level isolation, workspace b...
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Removing ADLS Gen 2 path (metastore root) in Unity Catalog Metastore
In my organization, we are using Databricks unity catalog and we have a metastore created for our region which holds all of our workspaces. When we created the metastore last year, we set a metastore root location for it (If I remember correctly, met...
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In Databricks Unity Catalog, you’re right that you cannot simply “unset” the metastore root in place the way you would change a catalog setting. Historically, once a metastore root was defined, it stayed attached to the metastore.However, there is no...
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PSA: Community Edition retires on January 1, 2026. Move to the Free Edition today to keep your work.
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DABs: Referencing Your Resources
From hardcoded IDs, through lookups, to finally referencing resources. I think almost everyone, including me, wants to go through such a journey with Databricks Asset Bundles. #databricks In the article below, I am looking at how to reference a resou...
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Resolved! SQL Warehouse and Unity Catalog
Hello,Is SQL warehouses managed by Unity Catalog? My understanding is that since SQL Warehouse is part of the compute layer, Unity Catalog doesn't manage it as it only manages data layers.
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@Senga98 SQL warehouses themselves are not governed by Unity Catalog, since they belong to the compute layer rather than the data layer. Unity Catalog focuses on managing data assets and how access to those assets is controlled, not on managing compu...
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Resolved! How do I grant access to find a table in Databricks, without giving access to query the table?
Hi!By default it seems users can only see tables and views in Unity Catalog that they have SELECT permission/privilege on. However, we would like to use Unity Catalog as a data catalog of tables we have. They wouldn't then be able to request access t...
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@excavator-matt to make tables and views discoverable without exposing their data, you should use the BROWSE privilege at the catalog level.Granting BROWSE on a catalog (for example to the All-account users' group) allows users to view metadata acros...
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What are the practical differences between bagging and boosting algorithms?
How are bagging and boosting different when you use them in real machine-learning projects?
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The practical differences between bagging and boosting mostly come down to how they build models and how they handle errors:Model Training Approach:Bagging (Bootstrap Aggregating): Builds multiple models in parallel using random subsets of the data. ...
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