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APJESK
by New Contributor III
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Clarification on Unity Catalog Metastore - Metadata and storage

Where does the Unity Catalog metastore metadata actually reside?Is it stored and managed in the Databricks account (control plane)?Or does it get stored in the customer-managed S3 bucket when we create a bucket for Unity Catalog metastore?I want to c...

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nayan_wylde
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@APJESK Replied here https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-governance/clarification-on-unity-catalog-metastore-metadata-and-storage/td-p/133389 

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xavier_db
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Databricks GCP login with company account

I created gmail on my company account, then I logged in in gcp databricks, till yesterday it was working fine, yesterday I logged in into gmail account, there it asked for another gmail id, so I have provided new, but today I am not able to login usi...

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Advika
Databricks Employee
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Hello @xavier_db! Were you able to get this login issue resolved? If yes, it would be great if you could share what worked for you so others facing the same problem can benefit as well.

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tabasco
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Is there a way to register S3 compatible tables?

Hi everyone,I have successfully registered AWS S3 tables in unity catalog, but I would like to register S3-compatible as well.But, to create an EXTERNAL LOCATION in unity catalog, it seems I must register a credential. But the only suported credentia...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hey @tabasco, did you check out the External Table documentation in the Databricks AWS docs?External Locationhttps://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-external-locationsCredentialshttps://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/sql/language-m...

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noorbasha534
by Valued Contributor II
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Workload identity federation policy

Dear allCan I create a single workload federation policy for all devops pipelines?Our set-up : we have code version controlled in Github repos. And, we use Azure DevOps pipelines to authenticate with Databricks via a service principal currently and d...

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @noorbasha534 ,In docs they are giving following example of subject requirements for Azure Devops. So, the subject (sub) claim must uniquely identify the workload. So as long as all of your pipelines resides in the same organization, same project ...

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ashokz
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Is it possible restore a deleted catalog and schema

Is it possible restore a deleted catalog and schema.if CASCADE is used even though schemas and tables are present in catalog, catalog will be dropped.Is it possible to restore catalog or is possible to restrict the use of CACADE command.Thank you.

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immassiv
New Contributor III
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@Louis_Frolio I cannot click any "Accept as Solution" button, as I was not the one creating the post, I believe

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tana_sakakimiya
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Resolved! Dev/Prod Environments in AWS: Separate Accounts vs. Separate Workspaces?

Hello everyone,I'm looking for some advice on best practices. When setting up development and production environments for Databricks on AWS, is it better to use completely separate AWS accounts, or is it sufficient to use separate workspaces within a...

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @tana_sakakimiya , I allow myself copy and paste brilliant answer on similar question provided by user Isi:"Option A: Multiple Databricks accounts and multiple AWS accountsThis model offers the highest level of isolation. Each environment lives in...

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Ninad-Mulik
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Enable the "Billable Usage Download' Accounts API on our Azure

 Hi Databricks Support,Could you please confirm whether the Billable Usage Download endpoint can be enabled on Azure Databricks account, similar to how it’s available on AWS/GCP? If yes, what are the steps that should be followed for the same.. else ...

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Ninad-Mulik
New Contributor III
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Thank you.. !! i finally got to know wat to do..!!

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chloe_nm
by New Contributor
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Mismatch cuda/cudnn version on Databricks Runtime GPU ML version

I have a cluster on Databricks with configuration Databricks Runtime Version16.4 LTS ML Beta (includes Apache Spark 3.5.2, GPU, Scala 2.12), and another cluster with configuration 16.0 ML  (includes Apache Spark 3.5.2, GPU, Scala 2.12).  According to...

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lin-yuan
Databricks Employee
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There could be library related conflicts in 16.0ML that got fixed in 16.4ML. I would always recommend to use the LTS version. Thanks

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Kaitsu
by New Contributor
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DataBricks JDBC driver fails when unsupported property is submitted

Hello!The Databricks jdbc driver applies a property that is not supported by the connector as a Spark server-side property for the client session. How can I avoid that ? With some tools I do not have 100% control, eg they may add a custom jdbc connec...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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Hi @Kaitsu ,  The documentation mentions, If you specify a property that is not supported by the connector, then the connector attempts to apply the property as a Spark server-side property for the client session. Unlike many other JDBC drivers that ...

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NadithK
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Pre-loading docker images to cluster pool instances still requires docker URL at cluster creation

I am trying to pre-load a docker image to a Databricks cluster pool instance.As per this article I used the REST API to create the cluster pool and defined a custom Azure container registry as the source for the docker images.https://learn.microsoft....

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krupakar1329
New Contributor II
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@NadithK Pre-loading Docker images to cluster pool instances is for performance optimization (faster cluster startup), but you still must specify the Docker image in your cluster configuration. The pre-loading doesn't eliminate the requirement to dec...

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tariq
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Databricks Default package repositories

I have added an extra-index-url in the default package repository in databricks which points to a repository in azure artifact. The libraries from it are getting installed on job cluster but is not working on the all purpose cluster. Below is the rel...

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Advika_
Databricks Employee
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Hello @tariq! Did the suggestions shared above help address your issue? If so, please consider marking one of the responses as the accepted solution. If you found a different approach that worked for you, sharing it with the community would be really...

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4Twannie
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Databricks Usage Dashboard - Tagging Networking Costs

Problem OverviewOur team has successfully integrated Azure Databricks Usage Dashboards to monitor platform-related costs. This addition has delivered valuable insights into our spending patterns. However, we've encountered a tagging issue that's prov...

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mark_ott
Databricks Employee
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There is no direct way to tag certain Azure networking resources (such as network interfaces, public IPs, or managed disks) so that their costs inherit custom tags like "projectRole" in cost reports, because many core networking resources either do n...

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PabloCSD
by Valued Contributor II
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Why MLFlow version blocks library installation?

I have a Databricks Asset Bundle proyect running and when the MLFlow library released the 3.4.0 version it happened this error:When restricting the MLFlow version to < 3.4.0 it works.The libraries got stuck installing and the process finished in erro...

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Advika
Databricks Employee
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Hello @PabloCSD! Which Databricks Runtime version are you using?

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bdanielatl
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Markdown Cells Do Not Render Consistently

When I am creating a notebook in the UI editor on DataBricks, markdown cells do not always render after I run them. They still appear in 'editing mode'. See the screenshot below, it should have rendered a H1.Again, this behavior is not consistent. So...

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wilson_ejulu
New Contributor II
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same issue

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howardgagan
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When setting up unity catalog a storage account was created with security risk

When i set up databricks unity catalog, i think it automatically set up a storage account. I'm getting recommendations from Azure that this storage account has high risk associated with it. The problem is this resource has a deny assignment on preven...

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @howardgagan ,Each Azure Databricks workspace has an associated Azure storage account in a managed resource group known as the workspace storage account.This storage account includes workspace system data (job output, system settings, and logs), D...

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