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staskh
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Is it possible to disable file download in Volumes interface?

Workspace security administration panel offers to disable downloads in notebook folders and workspaces. However, it seems that even if all those downloads are disabled, the "Volumes" panel of Unity Catalog still offers a file download button. Is it p...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @staskh ,Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to disable it via UI currently. But volumes are governed by UC permission, so maybe you can try to set permission to read/write to approved group of users and take permission of users who should...

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Useit
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Issues with Delta Sharing API when using Service Principal Token

Hello,I am currently working with the Delta Sharing API and have encountered an issue when using a Service Principal token for authentication. The API call returns the following error:[CANNOT_INFER_EMPTY_SCHEMA] Can not infer schema from empty datase...

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Mounika_Tarigop
Databricks Employee
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Please find the response below:  1) The Delta Sharing API supports both personal access tokens and service principal tokens for authentication. 2) Service principals need to be granted specific roles and permissions to access data. This includes assi...

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hellobuddy
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Azure Databricks
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Mounika_Tarigop
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The below documentation shows how to install libraries in a cluster.   https://docs.databricks.com/en/libraries/cluster-libraries.html#install-a-library-on-a-cluster

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manojpatil04
by New Contributor III
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GCP Databricks GKE cluster with 4 nodes

I am working on setting up GCP Databricks and successfully created first GCP-Databricks workspace, but what I observed is it is incurring additional charges even i am using 14days free trail. It is GKE cluster with 4 nodes which are spin up as part o...

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manojpatil04
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Thank you @BigRoux,Just want to dig more into this as is there any way to reduce this nodes using CLI or creating customer managed network.

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karen_c
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Resolved! Databricks All-purpose compute Pricing

Hello, I am now struggling how to calculate the cost of my job cluster.My configuration is as below:If I have to run the above cluster 18 hours per day, in Standard Tier and East Asia Region, how much will be the pricing of the cluster?Any help provi...

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Takuya_Omi
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@karen_c Let me make a small correction.It seems that you have checked the option for Spot Instances, which should make the cost slightly lower. Please refer to the far-right column of the attached pricing table for more details.Additionally, you hav...

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Aaron_Wong
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How do I simply disable someone's user account

I'm trying to do something seemingly very simple - disable someone's user account. I don't even want to delete the user, just disable it for the time being. How do I go about doing that? 

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Aaron_Wong
New Contributor II
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Hello! I tried this call. I hid the sensitive information with "HIDDEN" in the example:  curl --request PATCH 'https://HIDDEN.cloud.databricks.com/api/2.0/preview/scim/v2/Users/HIDDEN' \ --header 'Accept: application/scim+json' \ --header 'Content-Ty...

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AlbertWang
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Resolved! Azure Databricks Unity Catalog - Cannot access Managed Volume in notebook

The problemAfter setting up Unity Catalog and a managed Volume, I can upload/download files to/from the volume, on Databricks Workspace UI.However, I cannot access the volume from notebook. I created an All-purpose compute, and run dbutils.fs.ls("/Vo...

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AlbertWang
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I found the reason and a solution, but I feel this is a bug. And I wonder what is the best practice.When I enable the ADSL Gen2's Public network access from all networks as shown below, I can access the volume from a notebook.However, if I enable the...

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raghu2
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Access to system.billing.usage tables

I have Account, Marketplace, Billing Admin roles. I have visibility to system.billing.list_prices table only.How do I get access to system.billing.usage tables? Databricks instance is on AWS.Thanks

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raghu2
New Contributor III
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Hi @Alberto_Umana, Thanks for your response. I needed Metastore Admin permissions too. In account console, I changed the Metastore Admin to be a group, became a part of the group. With this other tables were visible. With this permission using the gr...

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JissMathew
by Contributor III
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Best Practices for Daily Source-to-Bronze Data Ingestion in Databricks

How can we effectively manage source-to-bronze data ingestion from a project perspective, particularly when considering daily scheduling strategies using either Auto Loader or Serverless Warehouse COPY INTO commands?

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BigRoux
Databricks Employee
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No, it is not a strict requirement. You can have a single node job cluster run the job if the job is small.

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BryanC
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Any Databricks system tables contain info of the saved/pre-defined queries

How can I find the saved/pre-defined queries in Databricks system tables?system.query.history seems NOT having the info, like query-id or query-name

Administration & Architecture
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tapash-db
Databricks Employee
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Hi Bryan, Databricks system tables do not store saved queries. Query history table captures the query execution details, including: Statement IDExecution statusUser who ran the queryStatement text (if not encrypted)Statement typeExecution durationRes...

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JissMathew
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Resolved! Seeking Practical Example for Structured Streaming with Delta Tables in Medallion Architecture

Hi everyone,I’m working on implementing Structured Streaming in Databricks to capture Change Data Capture (CDC) as part of a Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers). While Microsoft’s documentation provides a theoretical approach, I’...

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @JissMathew ,Do you have access to databricks academy? I believe in their data engineering track there's pleny of example notebooks.Or you can try dbdemos. For example, here you can find demo notebook for autoloaderDatabricks Autoloader (cloudfile...

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dsmoore
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Resolved! Multiple volumes from same external location?

Hey all,Do you know if it's possible to create multiple volumes referencing the same s3 bucket from the same external location?For example, if I have two workspaces (test and prod) testing different versions of pipeline code but with static data I'd ...

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ozaaditya
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Yes, it is a limitation, and it is not possible to create multiple volumes referencing the same S3 bucket. This restriction ensures consistency and prevents conflicts when accessing the same data source.Possible Solution:Use subdirectories within the...

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janhouf
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Query has been timed out due to inactivity.

Hi,We're experiencing an issue with SQL Serverless Warehouse when running queries through the dbx-sql-connector in Python. The error we get is: "Query has been timed out due to inactivity."This happens intermittently, even for queries that should com...

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ozaaditya
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Possible reasons for this error may include:The warehouse is busy or waiting for compute resources.Connection or network issues.Solutions to try:Increase the timeout duration and try again.If the issue persists, please share the error message for fur...

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DominikBraun
by New Contributor II
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Environment Notification / Message

Is it somehow possible to create a message or alerting for specific Databricks environments to make people more aware that they are using e.g. a PROD environment?It can be reflected in the environment name like "dev" or "prod", yes. But it would be n...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Seems that for Azure the process is a little bit different you might follow steps in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/resources/ideas 

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yairofek
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getting job_parameters object with sql

Hey,In order to create more meaningful monitoring or usage or few platformic jobs I am using I need to be able to access the job_parameters object of jon runs.While job_parameters exists in system.workflow.job_run_timeline table, it is not populated ...

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michelle653burk
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 @yairofek wrote:Hey,In order to create more meaningful monitoring or usage or few platformic jobs I am using I need to be able to access the job_parameters object of jon runs.While job_parameters exists in system.workflow.job_run_timeline table, it ...

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