Over the past few months, we’ve been gathering your feedback and focusing on both the quality of Databricks Assistant’s responses and the overall user experience. Today, we're excited to showcase a more advanced Databricks Assistant, packed with powe...
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Meet Filip Niziol, a Senior Data Engineer at Digiterre and an active contributor to the Databricks Community. With a rich background in data architecture and a passion for building scalable data solutions, Filip shares insights on his career, Databri...
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Each month, we recognize one outstanding member of our Databricks Community who has made a real impact. Whether you share solutions, spark discussions, or help others, this is your chance to get featured! What’s a Monthly Community Champion? Our ...
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Over the years, organizations have amassed a vast amount of unstructured text data—documents, reports, and emails—but extracting meaningful insights has remained a challenge. Large Language Models (LLMs) now offer a scalable way to analyze this data,...
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Migrating your data warehouse workloads is one of the most challenging yet essential tasks for any organization. Whether the motivation is the growth of your business and scalability requirements or reducing the high license and hardware cost of your...
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worng answers in certification exam
Dear Databricks Certification Team,I hope this message finds you well. I recently took the generative ai enginerr associate exam and, after reviewing my results, I noticed several discrepancies that I believe may have affected my performance.While I ...
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How to edit the bucket path for the Unity Catalog metastore when it is set up later
How to edit the bucket path for the Unity Catalog metastore when it is set up laterRegistered on 2024/10 from AWS marketplace.We have created a customer management VPC and manually created the workspace.I create S3 for metastore storage from workspac...
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So @tyorisoo , I was able to check with one of my team mates. Only if you are an owner of the location, it can be edited, otherwise you ll have a to create a new one as I suggested earlier - create a new external location with the desired bucket path...
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why latestOffset and getBatch takes so long time
Hi team,Kinesis -> delta table raw -> job with trigger=availableNow -> delta table target. The Kinesis->delta table raw is running continuously. The job is daily with trigger=availableNow. The job reads from raw, do some transformation, and run a MER...
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When delta table tries to restore a version, it can find the closest checkpoint and apply versions up to the target. However, delta table needs to read and apply many versions to get changes between 2 versions. There are no compact file can be used. ...
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Databricks Python function achieving Parallelism
Hello everyone,I have a very basic question wrt Databricks spark parallelism.I have a python function within a for loop, so I believe this is running sequentially.Databricks cluster is enabled with Photon and with Spark 15x, does that mean the driver...
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Just Passed Databricks-Machine-Learning-Professional exam
Hi guys,I have the ML Professional exam scehduled for later this month and while I can find many resources, practice exams, and posts related to the ML Associate exam, I'm having trouble finding the same for the Professional exam.Anyone happen to hav...
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Unverified Commits via Databricks Repos: Seeking Solution for GitHub Verification
The team is integrating Databricks Repos with Personal Access Tokens (PAT) to commit code directly to GitHub. Our organization requires signed commits for verification purposes.Issue: When committing via Databricks Repos, the commits appear as unveri...
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Can you please share the link to this doc DB-I-3082. I couldn't find it.
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Is it possible to configure Databricks to leverage an AI PC’s NVMe storage for faster I/O?
Hello Databricks Community,I’m working on improving the performance of my Databricks workflows and exploring different storage options. I have an AI PC with NVMe storage, and I want to know if it’s possible to set up Databricks to use this storage fo...
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This is not how you should be using Databricks. Databricks is SaaS/Paas and it's main operating model is operate on data stored in Cloud Object Storage (GCS, S3, ADLS Gen 2). It is optimized for cloud storage, morever it is designed to be very fast...
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Help needed with automated file ingestion process for full refresh mode using autoloader preferable
Description:As a data engineer, I need to implement an automated process to ingest data from multiple files in a subdirectory and create corresponding bronze tables. This process should handle full file refreshes and consider strategies to limit the ...
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What do you mean by "full file refreshes"? Does this refer to the fact that file names will be reused?
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cloud_infra_costs
I was looking at the system catalog and realized that there is an empty table called cloud_infra_costs. Could you tell me what is this for and why it is empty?
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Thanks for replying. This makes sense. Any idea why it is empty and what to do to populate this?
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The New Data Analyst: Transforming BI in the Age of AI with Databricks Genie
Introduction Data and AI media will try to convince you of two terribly misguided ideas about AI’s impact on analytics. First of all, there’s the idea that prompt engineers who know just the right phrase to unlock the secret powers of generative AI w...
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I missed this question, sorry - Genie API is in private preview, reach out to your account team for access
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UC, pyodbc, Shared Cluster, and :Can't open lib 'ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server' : file not found
Hey Databricks! Trying to use the pyodbc init script in a Volume in UC on a shared compute cluster but receive error: "[01000] [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib 'ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server' : file not found (0) (SQLDriverConnect)"). I fo...
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Hi @Benni ,Ensure that the ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server is installed on the Databricks cluster, you can verify this by running the following command in a notebook cell on the cluster to check if the driver is available in the system:!ls /opt/microso...
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Cannot downgrade workspace object permissions using API
Hi!I'd like to restrict some users' permissions using REST API and got an issue while trying to update a permission on 'directories'.I'm trying to set a user's permission on their default username folder in the workspace to 'can edit' so that they ca...
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Hi @takak, Greetings from Databricks! What is the REST API you are making the call to? Looks like this might not be supported programmatically, but will try to test it internally. it appears that the CAN_MANAGE permission is a higher-level permission...
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I want to play from my phone
Maybe someone can advise something so that you can play on the road or on vacation
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Hey there! If you're looking to use your phone for some fun, it's totally possible and actually pretty convenient! For ios users, there are plenty of options to enjoy a variety of activities with ease. One platform you might want to check out is Jeet...
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Error Creating Table from delta location dbfs
[UC_FILE_SCHEME_FOR_TABLE_CREATION_NOT_SUPPORTED] Creating table in Unity Catalog with file scheme dbfs is not supported. Instead, please create a federated data source connection using the CREATE CONNECTION command for the same table provider, then ...
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Hi @vyasakhilesh,The error you're seeing, [UC_FILE_SCHEME_FOR_TABLE_CREATION_NOT_SUPPORTED], occurs because Unity Catalog in Databricks does not support creating tables directly from DBFS (Databricks File System) locations.In this case, you're trying...
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Resolved! SQL View Formatting in Catalog - Can you turn it off?
It appears as though Databricks now formats SQL View definitions when showing them in the Catalog. Our solution is based on views, and we have comment tags in those views. We format these views so that it is easy for us to find and update parts of ...
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Thank you! I will submit that request.In case anyone else stumbles upon this post, here is a function you can add that will return the view definition from information_schema, unformatted with an ALTER statement at the top:DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS <c...
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