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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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10-02-2025
⭐ 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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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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Leif
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RLS

Hi,I have created a function that I have applied as a row filter function to multiple tables.The function takes one input parameter (a column value from the table). It then uses session_user() to look up a user in our users table. If the user is foun...

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emma_s
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It should be still supported, the only change I can find is that the table that you're referencing can't have a row filter applied to it. Has the users table got any type of row filter on it? It also can't create any type of circular reference.

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PabloCSD
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Can't display histogram in Databricks Notebooks

Is it a known bug? It says to use display(dataframe) for is not workingHow can I display it using Databricks Visualizations? Thanks in advance

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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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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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Hi, There are a few things that could cause the issues you've outlined: Temporary resource scarcity (compute, network bandwidth, or concurrency limits on the warehouse) can lead to queries taking longer than usual or connections being dropped u...

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DataYoga
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Informatica ETLs

I'm delving into the challenges of ETL transformations, particularly moving from traditional platforms like Informatica to Databricks. Given the complexity of legacy ETLs, I'm curious about the approaches others have taken to integrate these with Dat...

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Kalyan4
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Yes, this is a common challenge. Most teams avoid 1:1 conversion and instead rationalize ETLs first, then rebuild using Spark-native patterns (joins, lookups, SCDs) with strong validation. We’ve seen good results combining this approach with Kanerika...

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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
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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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4Twannie
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Delta Sharing from Databricks to SAP BDC fails with invalid_client error

ContextWe are in the process of extracting data between SAP BDC Datasphere and Databricks (Brownfield Implementation).SAP Datasphere is hosted in AWS (eu10)Databricks is hosted in Azure (West Europe)The BDC Connect System is located in the same regio...

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Abeshek
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This is a common challenge in enterprise SAP Datasphere and Databricks integrations, particularly in brownfield, cross-cloud setups. We’ve seen multiple cases where sharing between SAP and Databricks works as expected, while the reverse path introduc...

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dfighter1312
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Behavior of Vector Index Sync with Delta Tables When Using OVERWRITE vs MERGE in Databricks

I'm working with vector search in Databricks using vector index sync with Delta tables, and I'm a bit unclear on how updates to the source table affect the vector index, specifically when using different write operations.If I overwrite the source Del...

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jameswood32
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From community experience, vector index sync behavior depends heavily on how the Delta table is updated. With OVERWRITE, the table is effectively replaced, so the vector index typically treats this as a full refresh. Existing embeddings are dropped a...

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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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Abeshek
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This is a well-documented issue, and it highlights how dependency conflicts in managed runtimes can quickly become a blocker for teams extending Spark beyond standard use cases.We see similar challenges when organizations build custom providers or in...

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AbhaySingh
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Unity Catalog Lineage: Lineage That Just Works

I've been working with Unity Catalog's lineage capabilities for a while now, and I have to say—this is what lineage should have always been. Not a separate tool to configure. Not a manual process to maintain. Just automatic, real-time visibility into...

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Raman_Unifeye
Contributor III
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I have been using and implementing UC in various workspaces across industry, BYOL is the one I am really looking forward to implement next.Thanks @AbhaySingh for consolidating it here.

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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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Raman_Unifeye
Contributor III
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@bercaakbayir - 2 areas to look at for permissions.Unity Catalog PermissionDestination‑level permissionsPlease Check,UC enabled for your workspace. [Metastore Admin, not workspace Admin]CREATE permissions on the target catalog - User or SP should hav...

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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
Databricks Employee
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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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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
Databricks Employee
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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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