We’re getting ready to pilot the Databricks Detective Series ahead of its launch at Data + AI Summit 2026, and we’re looking for Community members to help test it. Databricks Detective Series is a free, gamified, hands-on experience where you become...
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We promised something special and here it is. We're thrilled to introduce the DAIS 2026 Community Virtual Challenge, open to every member of the Databricks Community, wherever you are in the world. Opens: May 15, 2026 Closes: May 31, 2026 Winners...
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Calling all builders!Since GA, thousands of teams have moved production workloads onto Lakebase. We want to hear how you’re using it.A few examples of stories we’d love to capture: Building stateful AI agents that need persistent memory alongside lak...
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Already registered for Data + AI Summit 2026? Join us on Monday, June 15 for the Databricks Apps & Agents for Good Hackathon 2026, hosted in partnership with OpenAI. Secure your spot and apply by Sunday May, 31 Note: Marking RSVP on this Community ...
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DAIS 2026 · Speaker Spotlight A conversationwith Jasmeet Jaggi On business semantics — the foundational trust layer that lets self-service analytics, dashboards, and AI agents actually work on enterprise data. The Session Unity Catalog Busi...
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Limited seats are available to join our revamped training program at Data + AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco, with early-bird pricing that gives you 50% off training if you register by April 30. Key highlights Big savings on training and certification...
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Our Community Champion Program celebrates members who consistently contribute their expertise, support fellow practitioners, and help shape a stronger and more collaborative Databricks Community. Every month, we recognize individuals whose passion fo...
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Generative AI badge not received been more than 3 months
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Our Community Champion Program celebrates members who consistently contribute their expertise, support fellow practitioners, and help shape a stronger and more collaborative Databricks Community. Every month, we recognize individuals whose passion fo...
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Thanks to @balajij8 for being a Community Champion!! We appreciate all you do so much. Stay tuned for a special invitation from me and the Community team!
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Databricks Dashboards - display totals in Tables
I was wondering if anyone has been able to display totals in a Table/Pivot visualization? Similar to what is possible in other BI tools?If I have a table with a bunch of rows and one of the columns is Total Cost, I want to be able to show a Total at ...
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Hi,Is there a way to add a grand total to a table visualisation in a Databricks dashboard, based on the latest updates?In a pivot table, I can add a grand total row; however, the issue is that doing so compromises the sorting functionality.
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Init Script to Install ODBC Driver Causes Cluster Crash (JVM Thread Dump)
Hello Databricks Community,I am facing a critical issue where our cluster fails to start when using an init script designed to install the Databricks ODBC driver. I'm hoping someone can shed light on what might be happening within our specific enviro...
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UI issue with R plots
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This looks like a workspace-side notebook UI regression. Recommendation Open a Databricks support ticket and treat it as a Notebook UI / rendering regression for that workspace. Include: Workspace IDRegion: ap-southeast-2Start date: May 6A notebook...
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Because your agents hand work to each other automatically, your evaluation unit should be the workflow. 1. How to evaluate a multi-agent chain Use end-to-end trace evaluation as the primary metric, and step-level scorers as secondary diagnostics. MLf...
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The device to file workaround doesn't work for complex plots from ggarrange. I also stopped seeing plots in all old notebooks. Hope this is fixed soon.
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Inconsistent Cluster Log Persistence to Volume/S3 (stderr, stdout, log4j-active.log)
Saving logs from an all-purpose cluster to Volume or S3 is not consistent, because stderr, stdout, and log4j-active.log get overwritten when the cluster is restarted between minutes 01 and 59.Tested case:A job is configured to start every 20 minutes,...
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Hi @ccsalt , This is a known limitation. Log rotation (renaming to log4j-YYYY-MM-DD-HH.log.gz) only happens on the hour boundary. The active log file log4j-active.log has always the same name and is overwritten if a cluster restart happens within one...
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DAIS 2026 Speaker Spotlight Series #5 | Jasmeet Jaggi
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Resolved! Azure Databricks Serverless private connection to S3 bucket
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Hi,I'm looking at moving from job clusters to serverless environments. Ideally to reduce cost and improve start up time.I can see that it is now possible to specify a custom environment .yaml file - and specify Python packages to be installed.Is ther...
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Hi @AlexM There isn’t currently a way to bring a pre-built container image into serverless notebooks/jobs. Serverless supports custom environment YAML files and dependency installation/caching, but Databricks Container Services isn’t supported on ser...
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Learning Series | Master Modern Analytics Fundamentals
Databricks Academy offers the free Master Modern Analytics Fundamentals training to help learners understand how to build trusted, AI-powered analytics on the Databricks Platform. In just 1-hour you’ll learn to: Build and navigate AI/BI dashboards: ...
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