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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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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Labels and sort by Field
Dashboards now offer more flexibility, allowing us to use another field or expression to label or sort the chart. See demo at:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ngQUkdmD3o&t=893s- https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-52-22-december-2...
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Creating Serverless Cluster
Hi everyone,I am trying to create a cluster in Databricks Free Edition, but I keep getting the following error:"Cannot create serverless cluster, please try again later."I have attempted this on different days and at different times, but the issue pe...
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Hi @Gilad-Shai - Can you please go to your compute and see whether you have any existing serverless SQL warehouse is there or not. In free edition, only one serverless is available. Please check it.
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Installing Custom Packages on Serverless Compute via Databricks Connect
I have a custom Python package that provides a PySpark DataSource implementation. I'm using Databricks Connect (16.4.10) and need to understand package installation options for serverless compute.Works: Traditional Compute ClusterCustom package pre-i...
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Hi @ganesh_raskar - If you can provide which custom package and exact code and error, I can try to replicate at my end and explore the suitable option.
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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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Hi @Rajat-TVSM These official Databricks links should help, as they cover the production-recommended way (Service Principal) and the Serving Endpoint API with examples:Service Principal authenticationhttps://docs.databricks.com/en/dev-tools/auth/serv...
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Data Engineer Associate Certification in 2026
Hi Community,I’m planning to take the Data Engineer Associate Certification in 2026 to advance my skills and career. Are there any ongoing promotions or opportunities to get a 50% discount voucher for the exam? It would be incredibly helpful if you c...
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Unable to access “Data Management and Governance with Unity Catalog” course – Access Denied
Hi Team,I am enrolled in the Associate Data Engineering learning pathway in Databricks Training.I am able to open the first three courses without any issues:Data Ingestion with Lakeflow ConnectDeploy Workloads with Lakeflow JobsBuild Data Pipelines w...
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Associate data Engineer voucher
Hello Data bricks team,I completed my Data bricks associate Data Engineer training module. Could you please investigate and send me the 50% coupon code.
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iceberg with partitionedBy option
I am able to create a UnityCatalog iceberg format table: df.writeTo(full_table_name).using("iceberg").create()However, if I am adding option partitionedBy I will get an error. df.writeTo(full_table_name).using("iceberg").partitionedBy("ingest_dat...
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One observation - Can you first write the data to a data frame and the write to a table in iceberg and partition, rather creating the table and then write it.
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Calling exe from notebook
How to call exe (c-sharp code based) from data bricks notebook?#csharp exe
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Hi @nkrish - From my view and to have a clean flow, better to refactor the code to python or pyspark and take the advantage of databricks.
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How do I import a python module when deploying with DAB?
Below is how the folder structure of my project looks like: resources/ |- etl_event/ |- etl_event.job.yml src/ |- pipeline/ |- etl_event/ |- transformers/ |- transformer_1.py |- utils/ |- logger.py databricks.ym...
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Databricks Excel Reader
We’ve recently created a new Excel reader function, and I decided to have a play around with it. I’ve used an open dataset for this tutorial, so you can follow along too. Using file available here - https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/pe...
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Nice example!
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Import .py files module does not work on VNET injected workspace
We have problem with import any python files as module on VNET injected workspace.For same folder structure (see bellow), the imports works on serverless clusters or in databricks managed workspace (i.e. create new azure databricks workspace without ...
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Try to go via this manual https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/security/network/classic/private-link-standard It looks like problem with 443 connection from cluster to control plane. Check also: %sh python -c "import socket; print(socke...
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AWS DATABRICKS COMPUTE COSTS IN USAGE DASHBOARDS
Good afternoon!I know that the built-in Databricks usage dashboards currently only display DBU (Databricks Unit) usage. Our Databricks workspaces are running on AWS, and the clusters provision EC2 instances automatically.I would like to include the u...
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There is a plan to include EC2 costs in cloud_infra_cost in the system tables. Not sure about its status, but the table is already visible.
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New face in the Community!
Hello everyone! I’m excited to join the team here, you will find me more active around the community. I’m really looking forward to learning from all of you and contributing wherever I can.Please feel free to reach out if you have questions, ideas, ...
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Welcome. Maybe first task could be to fix 403 Forbidden error which is frequently here (just got it when I tried to reply to your post)
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Databricks Lakeflow Jobs Workflow Backfill
When something goes wrong, and your pattern involves daily MERGE operations in your jobs, backfill jobs let you reload multiple days in a single execution without writing custom scripts or manually triggering runs. Read more:- https://www.sunnydata.a...
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