Hey Databricks Community! Join us for a free, community-sponsored BrickTalk on Thursday, October 29! BrickTalks is a community event series where Databricks experts share real-world use cases, demos, and practical insights for building with data and ...
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DATABRICKS Asia-Pacific Learning Festival Free, virtual, hands-on Databricks training 21 & 22 October 2026 Virtual, labs included Free Ready to level up your Databricks skills? The Databricks Asia-Pacific Learning Festival is back, and ...
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FOR DATABRICKS LEARNERS Two free ways to grow yourDatabricks skills Both are free and live in the Databricks Community. Bookmark the one that fits where you are right now - or use both. 01 LEARNING PATHS Your Path to Certification What it is:...
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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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I received voucher. Search "voucher" in your registered email inbox.
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Custom MDM App on Databricks: Combining rules, ML, and LLMs for Entity Resolution
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Complete CI/CD Implementation for Databricks with Azure DevOps and Asset Bundles | Step-by-Step Demo
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How to Use the Databricks AI Dev Toolkit Inside the Workspace (MCP + Genie Code)
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Best Architecture for Building a Custom Agent in Databricks?
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Resolved! Associate data engineering
I see that we have to complete below courses within the upcoming event, I have started the first course which is "Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect" and completed 3 to 4 modules of it. Does it count in upcoming event or how to reset that? Would re...
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Hello,@Advika I have completed the four courses as part of the Associate Data Engineering pathway well within the window and needed to know how to avail the 50% coupon. Hoping to hear from you soon.
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Resolved! Spark Event Logging to DBFS creates only 0-byte .inprogress file
Hi Everyone,I'm trying to capture Spark Event Logs for a Databricks cost optimization solution.I configured my job cluster as follows:spark.eventLog.enabled=truespark.eventLog.dir=dbfs:/databricks/spark-events/The cluster starts successfully and I ca...
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Hi @Vamsi3757 - yes, the eventlog/ folder holds the full Spark listener event log, the same JSON-lines stream the Spark UI / History Server is built from: job, stage and task start/end events with task metrics, executor added/removed, SQL execution e...
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Exams with additional fees are included?
Hello, I knew that codes would be distributed on 10-19-2026; however, I didn't complete the exams with additional fees. Therefore, will I be eligible for the discount codes?
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Exams aren't part of the eligibility at all, so you haven't missed anything there. For the Advanced Learning Festival (16 Sep - 14 Oct 2026), the 50% certification voucher and 20% Academy Labs coupon go to anyone who completed every course in at leas...
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DevOps Fundamentals: 08 - Creating and Executing Unit Tests: Instructions doesn't match code
Instructions: To execute pytest within Databricks complete the following:sys.dont_write_bytecode = True - By default, Python generates .pyc bytecode files in a pycache directory. Setting it to True prevents this, which is useful in read-only environm...
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Good catch - the instruction text is right and the code cell is the typo. It should be sys.dont_write_bytecode = True. With False (Python's default) the tests still run, since Python silently ignores a failed .pyc write, but on a writable Git folder ...
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Databricks DiscountVoucher
When does Databricks send email Discount Voucher? Because I'm waiting for today and not get it?Thank you.
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@Advika I didn't receive my coupon. Can you please look into it? Thankyou
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What Is – a system table? (Your Databricks bank statement)
Clients ask me the same three questions all the time: What are system tables? What are they about? And what can I actually do with them? I recently came across a Databricks blog that answers the last one brilliantly: Top 5 System Table Queries for U...
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@DoTA , love your comments. All very valid points. Just adding a couple of things: 1. On the join, I'd write the price window as usage_end_time >= price_start_time AND (price_end_time IS NULL OR usage_end_time < price_end_time) instead of BETWEEN. T...
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How to measure a Dataset row count and size in AI/BI Dashboards?
Dear Databricks Community and experts, I'm creating AI/BI Dashboards using Genie LLM's /importBI function and I want the optimize my dataset by reducing my rows to 100K and size to 100MB. However, since I couldn't find a clear explanation in any reso...
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@Mertokcu There’s currently no row-count or size metric in the AI/BI Dashboard editor, but you can get both numbers for any dataset by running its SQL through the SQL Statement Execution API and reading the response manifest.1. Statement Execution AP...
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Genie One Guardrails
HiWe are opening up the Genie AI to the business users. The Genie One seems to be a good fit, but the problem I noticed is the Guardrails and influence over the single orchestration. All the questions have been nicely interrupted by Genie one and wor...
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Hi @SenthilKrishna,I’d use a skill for a reusable workflow, but I’d start with workspace instructions and the individual Genie Agents for the behavior you describe.A useful detail: Databricks documents that Genie One already searches available Genie ...
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