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    <title>topic Re: 🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! August 10 – 16, 2026 in Announcements</title>
    <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-pulse-your-weekly-roundup-august-10-16-2026/m-p/165942#M1014</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Kudos to all the members and bricksters for their contributions&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":clapping_hands:"&gt;👏&lt;/span&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thanks for sharing/mention&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/152834"&gt;@Advika&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:24:11 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Sumit_7</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2026-08-19T02:24:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! August 10 – 16, 2026</title>
      <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-pulse-your-weekly-roundup-august-10-16-2026/m-p/165925#M1013</link>
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&lt;DIV style="color: #ff3621; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1.5px; margin-bottom: 10px;"&gt;The Weekly Digest • August 10 – 16&lt;/DIV&gt;
&lt;H1 style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; color: #f9f7f4; font-size: 36px; letter-spacing: -0.5px;"&gt;Community Pulse&lt;/H1&gt;
&lt;P style="margin: 0; font-size: 18px; color: #eeede9;"&gt;Your weekly dose of the best articles, events, and conversations from the community. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":rolled_up_newspaper:"&gt;🗞&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":speech_balloon:"&gt;💬&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="margin-top: 0; color: #0b2026; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; The members who showed up and made a difference this week &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":victory_hand:"&gt;✌️&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="margin: 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;A class="in-cell-link" style="color: #f9f7f4; text-decoration: none;" href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/learning-events/databricks-amer-learning-festival-virtual-training/ev-p/163993" target="_self"&gt;Databricks AMER Learning Festival | Virtual Training&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 4px; font-size: 16px;"&gt;A few highlights from all the questions that got resolved this week &lt;LI-EMOJI src="https://community.databricks.com/🎯" class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":dart:"&gt;&lt;/LI-EMOJI&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;TD valign="middle" style="border: none; padding: 8px 0 8px 2px;"&gt;&lt;A class="in-cell-link" style="color: #0b2026; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.45; font-weight: 600;" href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/data-drift-metrics/m-p/165500#M2954" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Data Drift Metrics&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
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&lt;TD valign="middle" style="border: none; padding: 8px 0 8px 2px;"&gt;&lt;A class="in-cell-link" style="color: #0b2026; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.45; font-weight: 600;" href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/unity-catalog-metric-views-to-be-accessible-to-custom-apps/m-p/165520#M5511" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Unity Catalog Metric Views to be accessible to Custom Apps outside of DBX environment&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
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&lt;P style="margin: 14px 0 0 6px; font-size: 13px; color: #0b2026; opacity: 0.6; font-style: italic;"&gt;These are just the highlights – head to the community to see everything that's buzzing.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0; color: #0b2026;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;That's All for Now! &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":high_voltage:"&gt;⚡&lt;/LI-EMOJI&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thanks for showing up and sharing your brilliance – this community thrives because of you.&lt;BR /&gt;See you next week! &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":waving_hand:"&gt;👋&lt;/LI-EMOJI&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="margin: 0 0 16px 0; font-size: 26px; line-height: 1.25; color: #ffffff; font-weight: 800;"&gt;Databricks Community Contest | Genie-Powered App Challenge&lt;/P&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:58:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-pulse-your-weekly-roundup-august-10-16-2026/m-p/165925#M1013</guid>
      <dc:creator>Advika</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-08-18T16:58:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: 🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! August 10 – 16, 2026</title>
      <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-pulse-your-weekly-roundup-august-10-16-2026/m-p/165942#M1014</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Kudos to all the members and bricksters for their contributions&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":clapping_hands:"&gt;👏&lt;/LI-EMOJI&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Thanks for sharing/mention&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/152834"&gt;@Advika&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:24:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-pulse-your-weekly-roundup-august-10-16-2026/m-p/165942#M1014</guid>
      <dc:creator>Sumit_7</dc:creator>
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