The Genie has spoken And the winners of the Genie-Powered App Challenge are… A few weeks ago, we threw down a challenge: build something incredible with Databricks Apps and Genie Agent. And wow, you delivered. From smart, real-world prob...
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Thursday
Hey Databricks Community! Join us for a free, community-sponsored BrickTalk on Thursday, September 17, 2026! BrickTalks is a community event series where Databricks experts share real-world use cases, demos, and practical insights for building with d...
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Monday
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN The Data + AI World Tour is heading your way A free, one-day event on how organizations are building AI they can trust to deliver real outcomes - by grounding models in their own enterprise data and business context. THE...
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Databricks Advanced Learning Festival September 16 – October 14, 2026 Join us for a four-week event dedicated to learning, upskilling, and advancing your career in data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Whether you are...
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Virtual Event Time: AMER Sept 23 / 9 AM PTEMEA Sept 24 / 9 AM BST / 10 AM CESTAPJ Sept 24 / 9:30 AM IST / 12 PM SGT / 1 PM JST/KST / 2 PM AEST (Japanese and Korean captions available) Register for the Workshop Note: Marking RSVP on this Community ...
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2 weeks ago
Databricks EMEA Learning Festival Hands On Virtual Training 29–30 September 2026 · 09:00 BST / 10:00 CEST · Fully virtual · Free to join Ready to accelerate your journey on Data & AI? Join us for the EMEA Learning Festival. A two-day, hands-on vir...
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08-11-2026
Product onboarding can be complex and time-consuming when teams work with inconsistent data formats, inaccurate information and multiple stakeholders. The Simplifying Product Onboarding With Generative AI Solution Accelerator shows how generative AI ...
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Tuesday
The Weekly Digest • August 31 – September 6 Community Pulse Your weekly pulse: new articles, real answers, and the discussions worth watching. This Week's Community Stars This week's difference-makers – and a shout-out to the new members ear...
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Tuesday
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Unable to Start Serverless Compute in Databricks Free Edition
Hello everyone,I am using Databricks Free Edition. I had not used my account for quite some time, and I recently logged in to start working again.When I try to start Serverless Compute, I get the following error:Cannot start serverless computeHas any...
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Hi @HariSankar, Welcome back to Databricks! Here are some options to help you work through this. Firstly, check whether you are on the Free Edition or the old Databricks Free Edition. This is the most common cause of this exact error. The legacy Co...
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Best practices for SLA monitoring and automated retries across hundreds of Lakeflow Jobs
Hi everyone,We are in the process of migrating our legacy Airflow DAGs (largely time-based cron schedules) to Lakeflow Jobs, and I want to fully leverage the platform's event-driven capabilities rather than just replicating the old "timer-based" patt...
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igrating from Cron-based Airflow to Lakeflow's Data-Aware Triggers — Real-world experiences?
Hi everyone,We are in the process of migrating our legacy Airflow DAGs (largely time-based cron schedules) to Lakeflow Jobs, and I want to fully leverage the platform's event-driven capabilities rather than just replicating the old "timer-based" patt...
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FAQ for Advanced Learning Festival September 16 - October 14 2026
Frequently Asked Questions Databricks Advanced Learning Festival | September 16 - October 14 2026 General Where can I ask questions while going through the self-paced material? The Databricks Academy Learners Group page is a forum within the Data...
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Task Success is not Routing Health: a Databricks Smart Routing Case Study
I ran the same 24 coding tasks through three arms: fixed Haiku, fixed Opus and Databricks-managed selection. The managed-selection arm passed all 24 tasks. Its 24 routing records also said task profiling was unavailable.That is not a contradiction. T...
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How Can I Become a Databricks Partner Champion Through Technical Expertise?
Hello Databricks Community,I am actively building my technical expertise in the Databricks ecosystem and would like guidance on the roadmap to becoming a Databricks Partner Champion, with a strong focus on technical skills and hands-on implementation...
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Edit: More information in one place What are the current eligibility requirements for the Databricks Partner Champion Program?You need to meet the prerequisites, including 2 Fundamental certifications (Data + Generative AI Fundamentals), 1 Associate-...
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DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering: Lab does not match Videos
Hi,The Lab for DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering does not match the training videos.The videos and demos talk about health data while the lab uses taxi data.No additional details is required for this to be understand as something that would bene...
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Resolved! Best Practice for Handling Schema Evolution with Auto Loader in Production?
Hi Databricks Community,I’d like to hear how other Data Engineers are handling schema evolution with Auto Loader in production environments.Consider the following scenario:We have a continuously running ingestion pipeline using Auto Loader that proce...
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You can absolutely leverage Databricks Genie and the new Genie Ontology to handle downstream changes caused by addNewColumnsWithTypeWidening, and handle the changes using Genie ontology, but it requires understanding the division of labor between you...
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Tutorial: Transform your Lakeflow Connect ad data into visual and conversational analytics
Introduction Traditionally, unifying requires building brittle custom integrations for every single source. Lakeflow Connect resolves this with native, fully managed connectors for a full suite of martech sources, including ad connectors like Google ...
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Why External Secrets in Unity Catalog Matter
Modern data and AI workloads rarely operate in isolation. Pipelines connect to operational databases. Notebooks call third-party APIs. Agents invoke external tools. Applications use tokens, passwords, certificates, and API keys to reach the systems a...
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Announcing Databricks AppQuest: Hands-On Guidance and Cash Prizes for APJ Developers
SINGAPORE, [DATE] 2026, Databricks and AngelHack today announced Databricks AppQuest, a five-quest learning program that helps developers across Asia Pacific and Japan (APAC) build and ship working AI applications faster - taking them from an idea to...
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Since 2011, AngelHack has been a global leader in developer relations and marketing, helping tech companies connect with a worldwide developer community.
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Changing Root Metastore Location
We currently have a default root metastore location linked to an ADLS container.At the same time we are working on a ADLS migration project.All of the tables and files (everything we use for day to day business related) have moved to the new ADLS so ...
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@yawningbrain this is a great topic. The Azure Databricks documentation supports removing the existing metastore root and adding a new path. You cannot edit the existing path in place. This does not migrate existing data. When you remove the root, c...
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Meet SDP Rewind: An undo button for your ETL pipelines
It's Saturday morning, and your phone goes off. A deployment that shipped Friday afternoon has been quietly writing bad data into your pipeline ever since, and now downstream dashboards are wrong. So you spend your weekend figuring out how far back t...
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This is awesome, thank you for the walkthrough (especially the watermark example)!Since Rewind is scoped to one pipeline, could you clarify the recovery sequence for a separate downstream pipeline that has already consumed the affected rows through D...
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Delta Executor: Things to Check Before Using a Roblox Tool
Delta Executor: Things to Check Before Using a Roblox ToolWhen looking into third-party Roblox tools, I think it’s better to understand what you’re dealing with before installing anything. Version changes, device compatibility, source reliability, an...
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Databricks Community Contest | Winners of the Genie-Powered App Challenge!
The Genie has spoken And the winners of the Genie-Powered App Challenge are… A few weeks ago, we threw down a challenge: build something incredible with Databricks Apps and Genie Agent. And wow, you delivered. From smart, real-world prob...
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Really happy to see ChicagoPulse win Gold in Track A!Thank you to the Databricks Community, the judges, and everyone who put the Genie Powered App Challenge together. I had a lot of fun building this and working on a real Chicago civic data use case....
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