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Lakehouse, Lagers & Legends — Bangalore Meetup | December 13

Governing the Full Data Lifecycle: From Ingestion to Insight with Unity Catalog Date: Saturday, December 13 Time: 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka (Register to see address) Registration: Approval required Register Here! About Thi...

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2 weeks ago
Jaipur Usergroup First Virtual Meetup: AI/BI Genie + Data Science Careers — 19 Dec | 6 PM IST

Event Details Date: 19 December 2025Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ISTFormat: Virtual (Online) Marking RSVP on this page will not register your interest for the event. Please use the button below. Unlimited seats — but registration is recommended to recei...

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2 weeks ago
Celebrating Our First Brickster Champion: Louis Frolio

Our Champion program has always celebrated the customers who go above and beyond to engage, help others, and uplift the Community. Recently, we have seen remarkable participation from Bricksters as well—and their impact deserves recognition too. Begi...

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3 weeks ago
Big Book of Data Engineering - Get how-tos, code snippets and real-world examples

As data volume and complexity increase, engineers are left figuring out how to manage, monitor and maintain fragile pipelines while also handling fragmented tools. The Big Book of Data Engineering equips you with cutting-edge methods for building pip...

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11-12-2025
Level Up with Databricks Specialist Sessions

How to Register & Prepare If you're interested in advancing your skills with Databricks through a Specialist Session, here's a clear guide on how to register and what free courses you can take to prepare effectively. How to Begin Your Learning Path S...

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⭐ Setup Spark with Hadoop Anywhere : A DBR aligned local Spark+HDFS+Hive stack on Docker⭐

Hello Community, Let me start off with a quick question: Have you ever... Migrated your workloads from on-prem Spark to Databricks and encountered a bug and thought, “I wish I could repro this locally to debug the issue without burning cluster hours...

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11-13-2025
🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! December 05 – 11, 2025

We’re inching toward year-end, And the Community just dropped another week packed with sharp questions and standout wins.If you missed the action, here’s the pulse of everything that made the feed light up   Week’s Power Players      Spotlight on t...

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Phani1
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Triggering DLT Pipelines with Dynamic Parameters

Hi Team,We have a scenario where we need to pass a dynamic parameter to a Spark job that will trigger a DLT pipeline in append mode. Can you please suggest an approach for this?Regards,Phani

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sas30
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found a working example -databricks pipelines update <pipeline_id> --json @new_config.jsondatabricks pipelines start-update <Pipelineid>where in use JSON for passing parameters.. every run update the parameters with new json file

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der
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Resolved! EXCEL_DATA_SOURCE_NOT_ENABLED Excel data source is not enabled in this cluster

I want to read an Excel xlsx file on DBR 17.3. On the Cluster the library dev.mauch:spark-excel_2.13:4.0.0_0.31.2 is installed. V1 Implementation works fine:df = spark.read.format("dev.mauch.spark.excel").schema(schema).load(excel_file) display(df)V2...

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der
Contributor III
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I reached out to Databricks support and they fixed it with December 2025 maintenance update. Now the open source excel reader and the new build in should work.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/databricks/query/formats/excel 

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bercaakbayir
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Data Ingestion - Missing Permission

Hi, I would like to use Data Ingestion through fivetran connectors to get data from external data source to databricks but I am getting missing permission error. I already have admin permission. I kindly ask your help regarding to this situation.Look...

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jlancaster86
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Can't find zip file for "Get Started with Databricks Free Edition"

Hi, all. I'm getting stuck on the second step of the "Get Started with Databricks Free Edition" course. It's obviously instructing me to download a zip file from a GitHub repository, but there is no link provided for the repository. What am I missing...

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Advika
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Hello @jlancaster86! Thanks for flagging this. Could you please raise a ticket with the Databricks Support team mentioning the missing link in the course, so they can get back to you directly with an update? I’ve also shared this internally.

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libpekin
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Databricks Free Edition Account Migration

Hello,I set up a Databricks Free Edition account with the intention of running it on Azure, since my environment is based in the Azure cloud. However, the account was provisioned on AWS instead. Is there a way to migrate it? Please provide the steps ...

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Raman_Unifeye
Contributor III
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@libpekin - Short Answer - its AWS-only and no such 'automated' path/choice to migrate to Azure. 

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Rajat-TVSM
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Documentation on all ways to access agent serving endpoint from outside databricks

Struggling to find clear documentation which can help me with the subject. Need to know all the ways (production best practices) along with API method. As far as I know, using PAT is not a production best practice

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Gecofer
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Hi @Rajat-TVSM You’re absolutely right that Personal Access Tokens (PATs) are not considered a production best practice. For accessing Agent / Model Serving endpoints from outside Databricks, the recommended and supported approach for production is:S...

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chirag_nagar
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Seeking Guidance on Migrating Informatica PowerCenter Workflows to Databricks using Lakebridge

Hi everyone,I hope you're doing well.I'm currently exploring options to migrate a significant number of Informatica PowerCenter workflows and mappings to Databricks. During my research, I came across Lakebridge, especially its integration with BladeB...

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AnnaKing
New Contributor II
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Hi Chirag. At Kanerika Inc,, we've built a migration accelerator that automates 80% of the Informatica to Databricks migration process, saving you significant time, effort, and resources. You can check out the demo video of the same here - https://ww...

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Galih
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Spark structured streaming- calculate signal, help required! 🙏

Hello everyone!I’m very very new to Spark Structured Streaming, and not a data engineer I would appreciate guidance on how to efficiently process streaming data and emit only changed aggregate results over multiple time windows.Input Stream:Source: A...

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Hubert-Dudek
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I would implement stateful streaming by using transformWithStateInPandas to keep the state and implement the logic there. I would avoid doing stream-stream JOINs.

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Peter_Theil
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Databricks partner journey for small firms

Hello,We are a team of 5 ( DE/ Architects ) exploring the idea of starting a small consulting company focused on Databricks as a SI partner and wanted to learn from others who have gone through the partnership journey.I would love to understand how t...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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If I’m being completely honest, I haven’t seen any. As you can imagine, partner organizations tend to keep things pretty close to the vest for a variety of reasons. That said, once a new partner is officially enrolled, they are granted access to an e...

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abhijit007
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AI/BI Dashboard embed issue in Databricks App

Hi everyone,I’ve created an AI/BI Dashboard in Azure Databricks and successfully published it, generated an embed link. My goal is to embed this dashboard inside a Databricks App (Streamlit) using an iframe.However, when I try to render the dashboard...

Administration & Architecture
AIBI Dashboard
Databricks Apps
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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Greetings @abhijit007 , I did a little resarch and have come up with some hints/guidance to help you: Hey @abhijit007 — I did a little digging on this and pulled together some concrete guidance that should help you unblock things. Thanks for sharing ...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #14

Ingestion from SharePoint is now available directly in PySpark. Just define a connection and use spark-read or, even better, spark-readStream with an autoloader. Just specify the file type and options for that file (pdf, csv, Excel, etc.)

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks News: Week 50: 8 December 2025 to 14 December 2025

Excel The big news this week is the possibility of native importing Excel files. Write operations are also possible. There is a possibility of choosing a data range. It also works with the streaming autoloader, currently in beta. GPT 5.2 The same day...

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Shimon
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Jackson version conflict

Hi,I am trying to implement the Spark TableProvider api and i am experiencing a jar conflict (I am using the 17.3 runtime). com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Scala module 2.15.2 requires Jackson Databind version >= 2.15.0 and < 2.1...

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Suheb
by > New Contributor III
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How do I integrate third-party ML/AI libraries with Databricks GenAI workflows?

How can I use external AI libraries inside my Databricks GenAI projects?

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Thompson2345
New Contributor III
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You can use third-party ML/AI libraries in Databricks GenAI by installing them on your cluster or notebook (%pip install library-name), importing them in your code, and then integrating their outputs into your GenAI workflows. For large models, use a...

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Malthe
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Intermittent connectivity issues between Power BI and Databricks

We're experiencing connectivity issues between Power BI (refreshing a dataset) and Databricks.On the Databricks side, we're using a SQL Warehouse (serverless), which reports queries timing out:Query has been timed out due to inactivity.On the Power B...

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Malthe
Contributor III
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For reference, the issue began at 13/12/2025, 02:43 UTC, and ended (last failure) at 19:43 UTC, 17 hours later.We did nothing to alleviate the issue and the SQL Warehouse seemed to operate normally except when the issue began and concluded when there...

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