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Marco37
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Resolved! How-to migrate catalog storage account to another storage account

Hi,we  have a Azure Databricks Workspace that uses Unity Catalog  for storing data. We use a seperate storage account to store the catalogs. We need to enable the option "Infrastructure encryption" on this storage account and this is unfortunatly onl...

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lukaszmaron
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@Marco37 yes overall sound good.Just remember some points:Delta Lake transaction log history won't be copied (basically querying to a version of won't work)CDC history will be lostLineage can be lost after 'catalog swap'RLS/column masking stuff can't...

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simmestd
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Built a chrome extension that shows live $/hr inside the databricks UI

Got annoyed by not being able to see real-time costs in Databricks whilst manipulating data pipelines. Built a Chrome extension sitting in the corner of the page, pulls cluster and warehouse state from the API every few seconds, multiplies by DBU rat...

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nayan_wylde
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Yes, I’d install it — live cost is compelling — but it becomes daily-use only once it nudges behavior, not just informs.Live cost aloneValuable during notebook work, tuning, and experimentationHelps build immediate cost intuitionFeels “nice to have” ...

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lukaszmaron
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Databricks permissions management at scale

Working with permissions in Databricks at scale gets tricky pretty fast.A few patterns that keep coming up:permissions spread across workspaces, catalogs, groupshard to answer simple questions like “who actually has access to X?”lots of manual queryi...

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KrisJohannesen
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Cool solution!A lot of the auditing of what you have built will actually be available as part of the Governance Hub. It is built on the system tables- It also contains a lot of other cool features that are more in the areas of Data Quality, Classific...

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rdruska
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Resolved! DBSQL MCP Server - how to specify compute cluster?

Hi,the DBSQL MCP Server is really cool, however, I am not sure how to connect it to a specific cluster, and I could not find any information in any documentation page. My MCP settings looks like this:"databricks-sql-mcp": { "type": "streamable-http",...

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WendyW
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Thanks @Ashwin_DSA for your solution suggested here! we have a related situation. We have an AI-gateway that brokers connections to that externally-hosted Datbricks instance. As a result, we need a SQL warehouse to execute queries and can't alllocate...

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AMStrever
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Resolved! Databricks Platform Administration Fundamentals

I have enrolled in Databricks Platform Administration Fundamentals and on the Demo: "Using Databricks Utilities and CLI" it require"  you  to " open this Notebook in your workspace: 1- Using Databricks Utilities and CLi" Where does one obtain this No...

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AMStrever
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Ashwin for the response win. Thanks... however, unfortunately I do have a trial, as well as access multiple corporate workspaces. There are not "recreate steps" - in the training: it simply says " now open this notebook" which you need. It first give...

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jpm2617
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Serverless Access to Public internet

HiI am trying to run notebooks on serverless compute but I cannot access the public internet. I cannot perform a get on google.com getting "[Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution". I checked my admin console network policies and they all wer...

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Louis_Frolio
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Greetings @jpm2617 , I did some digging and would like to share my thoughts: @szymon_dybczak nailed the root cause. Your [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution when calling google.com is the classic symptom of a workspace attached to a restr...

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Beka
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Resolved! API does not return Genie space create and last modified dates

I am using "/api/2.0/genie/spaces" endpoint to retrieve genie spaces, but this does not return "created date" and "last modified dates". Is there a way to retrieve above information?

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @Beka, Unfortunately, no. Those timestamps aren’t exposed for Genie spaces today. The GenieSpace resource behind both GET /api/2.0/genie/spaces and GET /api/2.0/genie/spaces/{space_id} contains only fields such as space_id, title, description, par...

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vijayakunuri1
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Resolved! I built a free 11-tab Cost Observability Dashboard as a Databricks App — open source

I built Databricks Cost Observability — a full-stack observability dashboardthat runs natively as a Databricks App and reads directly from system tables.No data leaves your workspace, no external BI tools needed.What it covers across 11 tabs:• Execut...

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vijayakunuri1
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The main tradeoff: Azure Cost Management API has a 1-2 day lag, so the data is never truly real-time, but that's fine for a cost observability use case. We can have a ingestion notebook would run daily to get those cost ingested. Azure Cost Managemen...

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ismaelhenzel
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Feature Request: API support for Context-Based Ingress Control IP lists

I know that context-based ingress control is currently a preview feature, but it is an extremely important one. It removes the need for workspace-level IP access lists, making it much easier to govern allowed IPs centrally and preventing workspace-le...

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LokeshChikuru
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Databricks integrating with ServiceNow via Lakeflow Connect for data ingestion

Databricks integrating with ServiceNow via Lakeflow Connect for data ingestion and looking for guidance on enforcing integration-user based data access.Observed behaviourU2M OAuth authentication succeeds when ServiceNow access is granted to the works...

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LokeshChikuru
Databricks Partner
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Hi @emma_s I’ve reviewed the setup and wanted to clarify the behavior I’m seeing with the ServiceNow connector and U2M OAuth.The ServiceNow connection was created successfully using a U2M OAuth integration user, and that integration user has admin pe...

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eduardo_guerra
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Resolved! Cannot enable GPU for serving endpoint

Good morning, I want to create a serving endpoint with a GPU. However, I get a warning "GPU is not enabled for this workspace". Your AI chatbot is telling me I have to contact someone at Databricks. I tried this form - https://www.databricks.com/comp...

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eduardo_guerra
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Thank you very much 

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HideK253
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Integration patterns with Oracle database

Hello everyoneI'd like to try integration of Data Bricks with on-premise Oracle database, and now I have the following  fundamental questions as below about the architectures of that integration.1) I guess the following is the list of integration way...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @HideK253, Your list is essentially correct. The main Databricks-native patterns are export to files + COPY INTO / Auto Loader, Lakehouse Federation and Lakeflow Connect. A couple of other options are listed below. Custom Spark JDBC jobs: spark.re...

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mzs
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Resolved! How to make an Entra group available for GRANT commands inside a workspace?

We're using Azure Databricks and automatic identity management. Users and groups sync over automatically.If I want to grant permissions to an Entra group to a schema, I can't just run something like this in a workspace notebook:GRANT USE SCHEMA ON SC...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @mzs, To make sure we suggest the right option, can you share a bit more about your setup? Cloud & workspace type: Are you on Azure Databricks, and is the workspace identity-federated (Unity Catalog enabled)?Identity sync: Are you using Automatic ...

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gannicus
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Resolved! Databricks CLI token creation fails with “cannot configure default credentials”

Hello, I have been generating a Databricks personal access token in my YAML-based CI pipeline using a bash script. The pipeline installs the Databricks CLI and then creates a token using a Service Principal (Azure AD application) credentials.Current ...

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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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Hi, I'm pretty sure what you're hitting is stricter auth detection in the newer CLI/SDK. Your error shows azure_tenant_id, client_id, and client_secret all populated, so it's seeing more than one credential type and refusing to guess between them. Th...

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DataCurious
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how do you disable serverless interactive compute for all users

I don't want users using serverless interactive compute for their jobs. how do i disable it for everyone or for specific users

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timo2024
Databricks Partner
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Btw. I just realized that at least with VNet injected workspaces you probably can prevent any sensible serverless usage by not giving permissions and network route to the needed resources. At least in Azure Databricks, notebooks need access to Databr...

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