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    <title>topic Re: Community Fellows Roundup: January 2026 in Announcements</title>
    <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-fellows-roundup-january-2026/m-p/147846#M593</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Loving my new nickname, it's great to be part of community!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:51:45 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>emma_s</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2026-02-10T08:51:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Community Fellows Roundup: January 2026</title>
      <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-fellows-roundup-january-2026/m-p/147334#M589</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;The Community Fellows program is a cohort of Bricksters who love helping customers learn. They help out in the forums and provide top quality answers to all Databricks enthusiasts!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;January Numbers Because We Love Data&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;126 answers by Fellows&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; in January, up from &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;102&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; in December.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":blossom:"&gt;🌼&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Fellows &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;published 3 articles&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; in the Community, and &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;did 27 content shares&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; on social media.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Still chasing our legend: &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;353 answers in November 2025&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. The month of myth, the month of glory we shall continue to chase as our quest as a knight chases a dragon!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":dragon:"&gt;🐉&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;We have &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;56 total Fellows&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;, and at any given time about &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;50% are active&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. At this activity level, &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Bricksters answer about 25% of forum questions&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. Our goal is 50%, which means &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;we need roughly 2× the Brickster output&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;, either by activating more of the current crew or by growing the program. Let’s do it, Bricksters. Let your customer obsession shine!!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;January Leaderboard: Heavy Hitters&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Going strong like DONKEY KONG!! Great to see Louis at the top - can anyone topple him from his throne? Love having our longtime friend&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/425"&gt;@MoJaMa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;on the board, with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/192145"&gt;@AbhaySingh&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and &lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/167034"&gt;@stbjelcevic&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;solidly in the top, while newcomer&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/112558" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;@iyashk-DB&lt;/A&gt; is climbing the charts like an Olympian!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/34815"&gt;@Louis_Frolio&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;: 47 points&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/425"&gt;@MoJaMa&lt;/a&gt;: 31 points&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/112558" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;@iyashk-DB&lt;/A&gt; : 20 points&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/192145"&gt;@AbhaySingh&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;12 points&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/167034"&gt;@stbjelcevic&lt;/a&gt;: 12 points&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Hall of Fame Spotlights: Emma, Mohan, and G Yashwanth!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Huge congratulations to &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Emma Stowell&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/176516" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;@emma_s&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;, who earned her &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Level 2 Fellows position in the Hall of Fame&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; and received her official Fellows nickname: &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The Emmanator&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. Emma singlehandedly prevents car crashes and all sorts of transportation disasters all over Great Britain! Adjustable roadway signs? That's her! Trains on time? That's her!! I mean I suppose Databricks and her customers have something to do with it but I find it very impressive.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Shoutout to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/425"&gt;@MoJaMa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/112558" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;@iyashk-DB&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;, who both unlocked the &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Level 1 badge&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; and officially joined the &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Fellows Hall of Fame&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/425"&gt;@MoJaMa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; is a long time Community supporter who is now rising quickly in the Fellows charts, and we’re excited to find a new excellent Community friend in&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/112558" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;@iyashk-DB&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Recruiting Cool Bricksters&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;We added &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;8 new Fellows in January!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;Big thanks to our recruiters&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/176516" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;@emma_s&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/34815"&gt;@Louis_Frolio&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;, and&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/425"&gt;@MoJaMa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;for bringing fresh new shining faces into the program and helping us grow the coolest club at Databricks!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Top 3 Answers of the Month: Bricksters Shining!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/generative-ai/how-to-retrieve-genie-s-narrative-text-summary-final-summary-via/td-p/140227?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Genie’s Narrative Text Summary&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;A top shoutout goes to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/167034"&gt;@stbjelcevic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;for his deep dive on retrieving &lt;/SPAN&gt;Genie’s narrative text summary&lt;STRONG&gt; (final_summary) via API&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;. He followed up, cited internal resources, and stuck with it until the customer was fully unblocked. That is what “customer obsessed” looks like in the wild.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/warehousing-analytics/dynamic-global-filters/td-p/144512" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Dynamic Global Filters&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;In the “Dynamic Global Filters” thread,&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/188689" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;@davidmorton&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;helped a community member building an AI/BI dashboard for business users think through how to design filters that behave consistently across views, without turning the dashboard into a brittle mess. The reply focused on clarifying the real requirement first, then laying out a clean path forward so the user could implement confidently.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/databricks-serverless-pipelines-incremental-refresh-doubts/m-p/144008#M52247" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Databricks Serverless Pipelines - Incremental Refresh Doubts&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Ever wonder why a serverless pipeline chose incremental vs full recompute?&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/102072" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;@aleksandra_ch&lt;/A&gt; explains SDP’s decision-making and the key gotcha: the event-log “cost” value is &lt;STRONG&gt;legacy and not used&lt;/STRONG&gt;. She also shares how to keep things incremental: &lt;STRONG&gt;split complex MVs&lt;/STRONG&gt;, &lt;STRONG&gt;refresh more often&lt;/STRONG&gt;, and enable &lt;STRONG&gt;deletion vectors + row-level tracking&lt;/STRONG&gt;. Great follow up, clearly explained and great references!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;H3&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;We Need Bricksters!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;If you are a Brickster, please consider joining the Fellows program to help customers get unstuck, increase happiness, and accelerate consumption while earning points, badges and rewards. Check out go/communityfellows for more.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;To all the Fellows that participated in January: thank you!&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:09:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-fellows-roundup-january-2026/m-p/147334#M589</guid>
      <dc:creator>MandyR</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-02-06T23:09:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Community Fellows Roundup: January 2026</title>
      <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-fellows-roundup-january-2026/m-p/147537#M590</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/174591"&gt;@MandyR&lt;/a&gt;, outstanding job rallying the troops and giving kudos along the way. I’m genuinely glad to be part of this party. &lt;span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:"&gt;🙂&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class="p1"&gt;Cheers, Lou&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:59:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-fellows-roundup-january-2026/m-p/147537#M590</guid>
      <dc:creator>Louis_Frolio</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-02-08T15:59:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Community Fellows Roundup: January 2026</title>
      <link>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-fellows-roundup-january-2026/m-p/147846#M593</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Loving my new nickname, it's great to be part of community!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:51:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/community-fellows-roundup-january-2026/m-p/147846#M593</guid>
      <dc:creator>emma_s</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2026-02-10T08:51:45Z</dc:date>
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