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Self-Paced Learning Festival: 09 January - 30 January 2026

Grow Your Skills and Earn Rewards! Mark your calendar: January 09 – January 30, 2026 Join us for a three-week event dedicated to learning, upskilling, and advancing your career in data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. ...

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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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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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Solution Accelerator Series | Scale cybersecurity analytics with Splunk and Databricks

Strengthening cybersecurity isn’t a one-time project — it’s an ongoing process of adapting to new and complex threats. The focus is on modernizing your data infrastructure and analytics capabilities to make security operations smarter, faster, and mo...

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🎬 Databricks Community 2025 Highlights | A Year, Built Together

2025 wasn’t just another year on the Databricks Community.It was a year of showing up, helping each other, and building trust.  Watch the 2025 Community Wrap-Up This video is a small reflection of that journey.It highlights the key contributors of 2...

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🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! December 22, 2025 – January 04, 2026

The calendar changed. The conversations didn’t. The year turned somewhere between a solved thread and a new question. No pause. No reset – just learning, continuing right where it left off. Here’s how it unfolded   Voices That Moved the Conversatio...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 improvements

Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 brings Literal string coalescing everywhere, thanks to what you can make your code more readable. Useful, for example, for table comments #databricks Latest updates: read: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1...

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kailashp12
by > New Contributor II
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Resources to practice

Hello Team,I am looking for couple of useful resources to upskill myself on delta late and pyspark performance optimization on databricks. Can anyone suggest or recommend where I can get those resources?Thanks,Kailash

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MoJaMa
Databricks Employee
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Sign up for the Databricks Free Edition. https://www.databricks.com/learn/free-edition Lots of learning material available.

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MandyR
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Community Fellows: December Shout-Out to our Top Bricksters in Community!

Our Community Fellows are Bricksters who consistently provide quick, accurate customer help and high quality content. This internal program recognizes those who go above their daily work to share knowledge, improve our forums, and support the Databri...

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Advika
Community Manager
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Woohoo! Amazing to see the Databricks Community voices growing stronger – only getting louder from here .

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turagittech
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Databricks Governance Dashboards

I am looking for any prebuilt governance dashboards. I see in some demo videos a governance portal. Is that or similar available to load to our environments. I am aware of the data quality and profiling, but a single view of key indicators would be a...

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MoJaMa
Databricks Employee
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Governance Hub is in Private Preview. You can contact your account team to enroll your account for it. My 2 cents, it's pretty cool and very useful.  

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ravishankar_1
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Changing of name

Dear team,My name is B Ravishankar in Aadhar and in Databricks Account it is Ravishankar B will it affect the exam I need to take exam tommorow If affect help me to change my name

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MoJaMa
Databricks Employee
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Please open a ticket to the Training support team. They can advise best. https://help.databricks.com/s/contact-us?ReqType=training. But as far as I know this should not be a problem.

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halsgbs
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Resolved! Warehouse ID specified in job yaml file for sql tasks

My goal is to trigger an alert I have through a job, and it seems I have to specify the warehouse id within the job yaml file itself. We have different environments with different warehouse ids, and the issue is that if I specify the warehouse id in ...

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halsgbs
New Contributor
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Thank you! looks like the alert_id also needs to be parametised, and I was wondering if its possible to use a job parameter to do so? If I can use the alert name then that would be great but I believe it has to be the alert id, which will be differen...

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Ved88
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databricks all-purpose cluster

getting below error-Failure starting repl. Try detaching and re-attaching the notebook. while executing notebook and can see cluster have all installed lib.

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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Hi @Ved88 ,  Usually this error occurs in case of library issues or conflict with versions. If you remove the libraries, do you still see the issue. Additionally, review the driver logs to see if you see metastore related logs, which can give insight...

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Ties
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Query does finish on serverless but will not on classic

Dear community,We are running nightly businessvaults. Last year it stopped to finish on classic wh and after testing until completion when switching to serverless wh it stayed that way but costs have increased a lot. I have been testing numerous spar...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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Hey @Ties , When a query reaches 100% completion but fails to commit, it usually points to a metadata bottleneck, file system contention, or a massive data skew. While the job is hanging at 100%, go to the Spark UI -> Executors tab -> Driver -> Threa...

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ShivangiB1
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Sql server setup for lakeflow sql server connector to create ingestion

When i am executing below command change instance is getting created but without lakeflow as prefix, i read the documentation and it mentioned that to track schema evolution we need to have prefix, can I please get some assistance.Command Used:EXEC d...

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ShivangiB1
New Contributor III
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and when i altered the table got below warning : WARNING: Table [dbo].[test_table] has a pre-existing capture instance named 'dbo_test_table' that was not created by lakeflow. Lakeflow will preserve this instance and create its own instance alongside...

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rijin-thomas
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Mongo Db connector - Connection timeout when trying to connect to AWS Document DB

I am on Databricks Run Time LTE 14.3 Spark 3.5.0 Scala 2.12 and mongodb-spark-connector_2.12:10.2.0. Trying to connect to Document DB using the connector and all I get is a connection timeout. I tried using PyMongo, which works as expected and I can ...

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bianca_unifeye
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If PyMongo works but the Spark connector times out, the issue is almost always JVM TLS configuration or executor-level network access, not credentials or the database itself. TLS handling (most common cause):The MongoDB Spark connector runs on the JV...

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ChrisRose
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Resolved! Result Difference Between View and Manually Run View Query

I am experiencing an issue where a view does not display the correct results, but running the view query manually in either a new notebook or the SQL Editor displays different, correct results. I have tried switching the compute resource in the noteb...

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bianca_unifeye
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There are 2 fixes that I can think off Option A:  Make first_value deterministic  first_value(Customer_ID, true) OVER ( PARTITION BY customer_name ORDER BY submitted ASC, event_id ASC ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING ) U...

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harshapasala
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Declarative Pipelines meets foreachBatch: Custom Streaming for Advanced Pipelines

If this is the first time you’re hearing about Sinks in Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines (LDP), we highly recommend reading Introducing the SDP Sink API, which explores the recently launched Sinks API, offering the ability to seamlessly sink data to ex...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Great writeup @harshapasala ,  The @dp.foreach_batch_sink decorator is a great example of what I love about modern Databricks pipelines: declarative on the surface, but with real imperative muscle underneath. One sink, three destinations, and suddenl...

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AcrobaticMonkey
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Salesforce Connector SCD2 - Get new record with isDeleted = true on deletion

Hi all,I'm using the Databricks Salesforce connector to ingest tables with history tracking enabled (SCD Type 2).When records are deleted in Salesforce, the connector closes the existing record by setting the end date. The isDeleted flag remains fals...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Greetings @AcrobaticMonkey , I put on my researcher hat and dug into our internal docs. Here is what I found:  Short answer: this isn’t configurable today. The connector’s SCD Type 2 behavior “closes” a record by setting __END_AT and does not emit a ...

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SaugatMukherjee
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Structured streaming for iceberg tables

According to this https://iceberg.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-structured-streaming/ , we can stream from iceberg tables. I have ensured that my source table is Iceberg version 3, but no matter what I do, I get Iceberg does not streaming reads. Looki...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Greetings @SaugatMukherjee , I did some research and this is what I found.  You’re running into a real (and documented) Databricks limitation here: managed Iceberg tables cannot be used as a streaming source today. That’s true even though upstream Ap...

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viky3110
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github repository for the databricks provided generative AI pathway

Team,Is there anyway i can find the github repository of the trainer who provided the training for the Generative AI engineering pathway.I am looking for the code and the slides provided in the course pathway.Thank you 

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Advika
Community Manager
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Hello @viky3110! Currently, the slides used in the courses aren’t available for download. If you’re enrolled in the free self-paced course, please note that the hands-on labs used by trainers are not included in those offerings.You can access the lab...

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