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PSA: Community Edition retires on January 1, 2026. Move to the Free Edition today to keep your work.

Databricks Free Edition is the new home for personal learning and exploration on Databricks. It’s perpetually free and built on modern Databricks - the same Data Intelligence Platform used by professionals. Free Edition lets you learn professional da...

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🎤 Call for Presentations: Data + AI Summit 2026 is Open!

June 15–18, 2026 Are you building the future with data and AI? Then this is your moment. The Call for Proposals for Data + AI Summit 2026 is officially open, and we want to hear from builders, practitioners, and innovators across the data and AI com...

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Last Chance: Help Shape the 2026 Data + AI Summit | Win a Full Conference Pass

Your voice matters to us. We are planning the 2026 Data + AI Summit, and we’d love your input on what would make the experience even more valuable for you. Take a few minutes to share your feedback through our quick survey — your insights directly in...

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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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10-02-2025
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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11-21-2025
🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! December 12 – 21, 2025

Learning doesn’t pause, and neither does the impact this Community continues to create!Across threads and time zones, the knowledge kept moving. Catch up on the highlights   Voices Shaping the Week        Featuring the voices that brought clarity, ...

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Lakshmipriya
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From Learning to Enablement: My 2025 Databricks Journey

Celebrating platform capabilities, community impact, and responsible adoptionIn 2025, my Databricks journey evolved from mastering features to empowering outcomes.What became clear this year is that Databricks isn’t just a powerful platform — it’s a ...

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Louis_Frolio
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Nice write-up @Lakshmipriya ,  I really like this framing. The “Builder” vs “Strategist” distinction maps almost perfectly to how Databricks shows up in the real world. You can move fast and iterate in notebooks, but the same Lakehouse naturally nudg...

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TFV
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Regression: Dashboard slicer paste now commits invalid filter values instead of searching

Hi Team,We appear to be experiencing a recent regression in the AI/BI dashboard filter slicer behaviour.Steps to reproduceOpen a dashboard containing a single-select or multi-select filter slicer.Click into the slicer’s text input.Paste text from the...

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dj4
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Azure Databricks UI consuming way too much memory & laggy

This especially happens when the notebook is large with many cells. Even if I clear all the outputs scrolling the notebook is way too laggy. When I start running the code the memory consumption is 3-4GB minimum even if I am not displaying any data/ta...

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emma_s
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There are ongoing improvements being made to the Databricks notebook UI, and more to come to improve performance. However, you may be better to consider whether you would be better to break down the notebooks into smaller components, as browser memor...

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bek04
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Serverless notebook DNS failure (gai error / name resolution)

I’m using a Databricks workspace on AWS (region: us-west-2). My Serverless notebook (CPU) cannot access any external URL — every outbound request fails at DNS resolution.Minimal test in a notebook:import urllib.requesturllib.request.urlopen("https://...

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emma_s
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Hi, Here are some troubleshooting steps: 1. Network Connectivity Configuration (NCC) Confirm that the correct NCC (such as ncc_public_internet) is attached specifically to Serverless compute, not just to SQL Warehouses or other resources.After making...

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confused_dev
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Python mocking dbutils in unittests

I am trying to write some unittests using pytest, but I am coming accross the problem of how to mock my dbutils method when dbutils isn't being defined in my notebook.Is there a way to do this so that I can unit test individual functions that are uti...

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kenmyers-8451
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If this helps anyone here is how we do this:We rely on databricks_test for injecting dbutils into the notebooks that we're testing (which is a 3rd party package mind you and hasn't been updated in a while but still works). And in our notebooks we put...

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fundat
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st_point is disabled or unsupported.

On my DLT pipeline,I Installed the Databricks-mosaic libraryPhoton is activatedI'm using a workspace premium tierSELECT id, city_name, st_point(latitude, longitude) AS city_point FROM city_data ;st_point is disabled or unsupported. Co...

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emma_s
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DLT pipelines are still on runtime 16.4 which doesn't have support for st_point yet. See details here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/release-notes/dlt/ You should be able to use st_point in normal SQL editor as long as the cluster...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #23

Our calendar is coming to an end. One of the most significant innovations of last year is Agent Bricks. We received a few ready-made solutions for deploying agents. As the Agents ecosystem becomes more complex, one of my favourites is the Multi-Agent...

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Advika
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🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! December 12 – 21, 2025

Learning doesn’t pause, and neither does the impact this Community continues to create!Across threads and time zones, the knowledge kept moving. Catch up on the highlights   Voices Shaping the Week        Featuring the voices that brought clarity, ...

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sher_1222
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Data Ingestions errors

I was going to ingestion Data from website to databricks but it is showing Public DBFS is not enableb message. is there any other way to automate data ingestion to databricks?

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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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You may need to give more info about what you're trying to do. What website are you trying to take information from and how? Are you using a notebook to pull the data? 

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Suheb
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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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aaravmehta
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@iyashk-DB , this helps.

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ismaelhenzel
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Declarative Pipelines - Dynamic Overwrite

Regarding the limitations of declarative pipelines—specifically the inability to use replaceWhere—I discovered through testing that materialized views actually support dynamic overwrites. This handles several scenarios where replaceWhere would typica...

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omsingh
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This is a really interesting find, and honestly not something most people expect from materialized views.Under the hood, MVs in Databricks declarative pipelines are still Delta tables. So when you set partitionOverwriteMode=dynamic and partition by a...

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MohamedBoussaid
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Databricks certified data engineer professional - No Labs available

I am enrolled for labs at https://partner-academy.databricks.com/lBut it seems that courses belonging to "Databricks certified data engineer professional" lack Labs.Is that correct? If not, how to access labs. Now I cannot follow along and practice t...

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Advika
Community Manager
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Hello @MohamedBoussaid! As you have access to Partner Academy, you can access labs by clicking the User Menu icon (top left) and selecting Partner Labs. There, you can search for the courses (search for the self-paced modules listed under the Related...

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curious_rabbit
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Getting Genie to Generate SPC (Control) Charts Reliably

Hi everyone!I’m working on getting Genie to accurately generate Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts when prompted.  I'm looking for suggestions on how to best approach this. So far, I’ve tried using pre-defined SQL queries to select the data, bu...

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curious_rabbit
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Or here is hopefully a more elegant way to phrase my question:To visualise a control diagram in Genie for an end-user, should I a) instruct Genie how to create an SPC chart with SQL on the fly, of b) create a background job (pre-defined SQL query in ...

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Suheb
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What are recommended approaches for feature engineering in Databricks ML projects?

When building machine-learning models in Databricks, how should I prepare and transform my data so the model can learn better?

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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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Hi, this is quite a general question, I've put together a list of bullets that will help you in the right direction:   Focus on organized storage, flexible transformations, and making features easy to reuse and discover. Use Unity Catalog for govern...

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Sujitha
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🎤 Call for Presentations: Data + AI Summit 2026 is Open!

June 15–18, 2026 Are you building the future with data and AI? Then this is your moment. The Call for Proposals for Data + AI Summit 2026 is officially open, and we want to hear from builders, practitioners, and innovators across the data and AI com...

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BrandonFiebiger
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Hello! I tried to sign up for this multiple times... Each time I try to sign in I get to a screen that says nothing but "Error". Is the link broken or is it me? Thank you

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