topic Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4 in Data Engineering

Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

NSRBX — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:54:57 GMT

Hello Databricks Team,

Databricks-connect doesn't work on databricks runtime 11.3.

Databricks recommends that we use dbx for Databricks Lab instead of databricks-connect.

Databricks plans no new feature development for Databricks Connect at this time.

Dbx doesn't provided interactive debugging capabilities.

Could you continue to maintain this package databricks-connect on databricks runtime > 10.4 ?

Thanks

Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

LandanG — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:23:46 GMT

Hi @SERET Nathalie ,

Update: Databricks Connect for DBR 11.3 should hopefully be out by the end of November. For the time being Databricks-Connect will be available for each LTS DBR but that might change when other Dev Tools are released.

Also, we are currently in private preview for the DB-connect replacement, Spark Connect and there's also an official Databricks VS Code extension in preview so we have more developer tools coming soon

Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

xiangzhu — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:37:10 GMT

hi @Landan George

regarding VSCode extesion, are you talk about: paiqo/Databricks-VSCode: VSCode extension to work with Databricks (github.com) ?

Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

LandanG — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:48:59 GMT

Hi @Xiang ZHU , That extension is created by an external company who I don't believe Databricks has any affiliation with. Databricks is building an official extension which is in private preview so it's not available to the general public just yet

Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

xiangzhu — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:50:44 GMT

thx @Landan George do you have any ETA about the public preview ?

Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

LandanG — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:44:36 GMT

@Xiang ZHU I believe the private preview has opened quite recently so I don't know if we have an ETA for the public preview yet

Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

xiangzhu — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:56:59 GMT

thx for the confirmation

Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

640913 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:52:12 GMT

Is it possible to sign up for the private preview? Should I reach out to my contact point at Databricks for that in that case?

Re: Databricks-connect not available on Databricks Runtime > 10.4

LandanG — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:41:24 GMT

@gagneri I'm not sure about the preview process but yeah I'd reach out to your Databricks rep