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alesventus
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Move metastore to another azure subscription

Hi, We need to migrate our metastore with Unity Catalog to a new Azure subscription while remaining in the same Azure region. Currently, we have two workspaces attached to a single Unity Catalog. I’m looking for the best approach to move the metastor...

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Nivethan_Venkat
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Hi @alesventus,There are few points to be considered before migrating from One metastore to another. We need to see how the catalogs, schemas and tables are created as of now.If you have created everything has managed like managed catalog, schema and...

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IUC08
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Resolved! REST API for swapping cluster

Hi Team, I am trying to find REST API reference for swapping a cluster but unable to find it in the documentation. Can anyone please tell me what is the REST API reference for swapping an existing cluster to another existing cluster, if present?If no...

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IUC08
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Hi @szymon_dybczak,It helps! I am able to change the clusters. Thanks a lot!

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gs2
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Issue accessing databricks secrets from ADF

Hello -Seeing an issue where notebook triggered from ADF is not able to access secret scopes, which was working earlier. Here are the steps I did 1. Provide ADF contributor role permission in databrick workspace. - we tested this and were able to tri...

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Isi
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Hey @gs2 @IkuyoshiKuroda ,I have reviewed the documentation:According to the Databricks documentation on secret scopes, there are two types:Databricks-backed scopes → secrets are stored inside Databricks. These do not support authentication via Azure...

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spoltier
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Resolved! Using pip cache for pypi compute libraries

I am able to configure pip's behavior w.r.t index url by setting PIP_INDEX_URL, PIP_TRUSTED_HOST etc. I would like to cache compute-wide pypi libraries, to improve cluster startup performance / reliability. However, I notice that PIP_CACHE_DIR has no...

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spoltier
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Hi Isi,We moved away from docker images for the reasons you mention, and because they otherwise had issues for us. We are already using artifactory (as hinted by the environment variables mentioned in my post). I wanted to try further improving the s...

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faisal_da
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Unable to see Manage Account option in the Databricks Workspace

Hi, I have an organizational account who is the owner of the databricks workspace (premium) and also the global administrator. Still, I don't see "Account Console" option in the databricks after clicking the "manage account" option.I have tried to cl...

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naikashok
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Hi @szymon_dybczak ,Yes have databricks premium account and admin as well

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deepud26
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Connectivity of dbx serverless to api gateway dns in aws is failing

Hello, I'm trying to establish the connection between dbx serverless account which is in "Account A" to the api gateway dns name which is in "Account B" is failing. i have created a api gateway with the custom domain for ex : "api-dev.amazon.com" and...

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deepud26
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Hello @ilir_nuredini ,I'm trying the below way import requestsimport json API_URL = 'https://api-dev.amazon.com/v1/quality'headers = {    "Authorization": f"Bearer {token}",    "Content-Type": "application/json"}response = requests.get(API_URL, heade...

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Lovebo
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Error creating Databricks workspace on AWS (CREATE_FAILED with JSONDecodeError)

Hi everyone,I’m trying to create a Databricks workspace on AWS by following the official quick start guide:https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/admin/workspace/quick-startHowever, my CloudFormation stack fails with the following error:  The resource cr...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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Hi @Lovebo , I'm not too familiar with AWS but happy to have a go at helping. Let's see if we can rule out some of the more obvious things which are easy to miss on the documentation.First of all, are you just following the guide through: https://doc...

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noorbasha534
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Configure job access_control_list block from a single place outside of job definition

Hi allIs it possible to configure the access_control_list block ((basically that contains permissions)) from a single place outside of Databricks job definition? This is changing as we are re-defining our permissions model, and each time resulting in...

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Pilsner
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Hello @noorbasha534 If you are trying to alter the permissions across many jobs at scale, I believe there are a couple of options to help speed up the process. Firstly, creating groups of users should help, as you can then easily change an entire gro...

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sunykim
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databricks terraform provider, databricks_credential resource, service

I cannot make the databricks_credential resource create a service credential. It works fine with storage credentials. However, when i put `purpose = "SERVICE"` plus aws_iam_role and comment, in the apply phase it fails with `Error: cannot create cred...

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sunykim
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I have the same error message now when trying to create a USE_SCHEMA grant for a service principal as in https://registry.terraform.io/providers/databricks/databricks/latest/docs/resources/grant#schema-grants . I create a new service principal and th...

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erigaud
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Resolved! Installing libraries on job clusters

Simple question : what is the way to go to install libraries on job clusters ? There does not seem to be a "Libraries" tab on the UI as opposed to regular clusters. Does it mean that the only option is to use init scripts ? 

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Charlenendoza
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Frankly, I'm also scratching my head about this library installation conundrum in job clusters; the missing Libraries tab is definitely throwing me off. Seems like init scripts are the only officially sanctioned route, which feels a bit clunky. Are t...

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tariq
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Databricks Execution Context scheduling

Databricks allows a cluster to have a maximum of 150 execution context. If a number of execution context is attached and running operations on a databricks cluster with a driver and n workers, then how is the execution scheduled? I am assuming that o...

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-werners-
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Ok i get it.An execution context is not bound to cpu.  It is like a session.  So basically the limit of 150 execution contexts mean that 150 sessions/spark programs can run simultaneously on the cluster (whether that is possible on the hardware is an...

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samson01
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Resolved! AWS Account Level provider "databricks" Authentication

I am trying to deploy an additional workspace to my AWS Account with terraform, I keep running into this authentication an error message below, I have searched everywhere in my account console  and used chatgpt  which keep point me to the account con...

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samson01
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thanks that works

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Ludo
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Resolved! Issue with Databricks Alerts formatting sent to Microsoft Teams

Hello all,As of Thursday 20th 2025, we started to have our alert notifications being sent via Microsoft Teams with no formatting (raw HTML).We use a custom template with QUERY_RESULT_TABLE  and a few html tags.Looks like databricks alerts deprecated ...

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Ludo
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Hello,Thanks for sharing the explanation and link to the Microsoft's documentation.We had removed the HTML formatting a few months ago.

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eshwari
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Resolved! Unable to Create Cluster in ADW Deployment — CONTROL_PLANE_REQUEST_FAILURE

I'm running into an issue with my Databricks workspace in Azure in my own VNet. I've successfully created two private endpoints: databricks_ui_api and browser_authenticationHowever, when I try to create a cluster, I get the following error:CONTROL_PL...

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Khaja_Zaffer
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Hello @eshwari Good day, I think  szymon_dybczak and  me provided enough information, please let me know if you had the solutions.If you found the solution useful, you can select the solution for the solution which helps others.  Have a greate day!

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Swastick
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Resolved! GA for AIM

Do anyone know when Automatic Identity Management will be generally available for all the users?Announcing Automatic Identity Management for Azure Databricks | Databricks Blog

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Swastick
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Thanks for the clarification!I manage a fairly large Databricks environment, so enabling features that are still in Public Preview can be a bit challenging from a governance and stability standpoint. If possible, could you share any tentative timelin...

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