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AnkurMittal008
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Databricks Predictive optimization

If we want to enable Databricks Predictive Optimization, then is it also mandatory to enable serverless Job/Notebook Compute in our account. We already have Serverless SQL warehouse available in our workspaces.

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SparkJun
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Thanks. This was answered in https://community.databricks.com/t5/administration-architecture/enable-predictive-optimization/td-p/98731

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JameDavi_51481
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Adhoc workflows - managing resource usage on shared clusters

We run a shared cluster that is used for general purpose adhoc analytics, which I assume is a relatively common use case to try to keep costs down. However, the technical experience of users of this cluster varies a lot, so we run into situations whe...

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sshssh
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Hi, @JameDavi_51481 , were you able to figure something out?Planning a Databricks migration and realized we might need something similar too. 

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ibanezcp88
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Sporadic HTTP failure with SQL Serverless (bug?)

Our SQL Serverless installation has sporadic failures to our blob container in Azure.  The blob container is locked down to a vnet, and we are using the private endpoint to enable serverless access.  It will work fine for several hours, and then show...

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ibanezcp88
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I've confirmed all of that.  This seems like an AI generated response.  It seems more likely that Databricks rolled out a feature a week ago that is causing instability in the serverless warehouses.  Any other specific things to check would be apprec...

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HariSelvarajan
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Privileged Identity Management for Databricks with Microsoft Entra ID

Privileged Identity Management (PIM) can be used to secure access to critical Databricks roles with Just-in-Time (JIT) access. This approach helps organizations enforce time-bound permissions, approval workflows, and centralized auditing for sensitiv...

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jasonkhaihoang
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Thanks. However, as what I know, Azure PIM does not work for Service Principals. It's only applied to human user access

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Rameshkumar85
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I want to create custom tag in cluster policy so that clusters created using that policy get those

"I want to create custom tags in a cluster policy so that clusters created using this policy will automatically include those tags for billing purposes. Consider the following example:"cluster_type": {"type": "fixed","value": "all-purpose"},"custom_t...

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Walter_C
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Are you having any issue while running this code in the policy?

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Phani1
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Databricks Serverless best practices

Hi All,We are configuring a Databricks serverless that adjusts according to the workload type,like choosing different cluster sizes such as extra small ,small ,large etc, and auto scale option.We're also looking at the average time it takes to comple...

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Walter_C
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You can refer to our Serverless Compute Best practices: https://docs.databricks.com/en/compute/serverless/best-practices.htmlIf you refer to the Serverless Warehouses you can refer to https://docs.databricks.com/en/compute/sql-warehouse/warehouse-beh...

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AlbertWang
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What is the best practice for connecting Power BI to Azure Databricks?

I refer this document to connect Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service to Azure Databricks.Connect Power BI to Azure Databricks - Azure Databricks | Microsoft LearnHowever, I have a couple of quesitions and concerns. Can anyone kindly help?It seems l...

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Akshay_Petkar
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Hi @AlbertWang You have multiple options to connect Power BI with Databricks:Using Cluster Credentials: Under the cluster details, go to the Advanced Options and select JDBC/ODBC. Here, you’ll find the necessary credentials, such as hostname and HTTP...

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SALAHUDDINKHAN
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Manage Account option

HiI have created a premium databricks workspace on my azure free trial account and also have the global administrator role on my azure acount. I have setup all the necessary configurations like by providing the role of storage data blob contributor t...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hello @SALAHUDDINKHAN, If you are unable to see the "Manage Account" option, it is likely that you do not have the necessary account admin privileges. Please ensure you have the required permissions indicated here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/a...

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harvey-c
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Resolved! Any way to move the unity catalog to a new external storage location?

Dear Databricks CommunityThe question is about changing an existing unity catalog to a new storage location. For example: With an existing unity catalog (i.e. catalog1)  includeing schemas and volumes. The catalog is based on an external location (i....

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NandiniN
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https://docs.databricks.com/ja/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-alter-location.html

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ashish_modi
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cloud_infra_costs

I was looking at the system catalog and realized that there is an empty table called cloud_infra_costs. Could you tell me what is this for and why it is empty?  

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ashish_modi
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Thanks for replying. This makes sense. Any idea why it is empty and what to do to populate this?

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Fkebbati
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Ingress/Egress private endpoint

Hello ,We have configured our Databricks environment with private endpoint connections injected into our VNET, which includes two subnets (public and private). We have disabled public IPs and are using Network Security Groups (NSGs) on the subnet, as...

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JakubSkibicki
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@Fkebbati First, traffic cost in Azure are not reported as a separate Resource Type, but appended to main resource causing the traffic. If you want to distinguish them use for instance Service Name. In this case traffic cost is appended to Databricks...

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KBN
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Authentication for Databricks Apps

Databricks Apps allows us to define dependencies & an entrypoint to execute a Python application like Gradio, Streamlit, etc. It seems I can also run a FastAPI application and access via an authenticated browser which is potentially a very powerful c...

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guiferviz
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According to the response in this Reddit thread, it appears that this feature is not yet supported: https://www.reddit.com/r/databricks/comments/1g5ni8e/comment/lsceh4n/

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Sadam97
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Databricks (GCP) Cluster not resolving Hostname into IP address

we have #mongodb hosts that must be resolved to private internal loadbalancer ips ( of another cluster ), and that we are unable to add host aliases in the Databricks GKE cluster in order for the spark to be able to connect to a mongodb and resolve t...

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NandiniN
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Also found this - https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/why-i-m-getting-connection-timeout-when-connecting-to-mongodb/m-p/14868

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ccsong
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Data leakage risk happened when we use the Azure Databricks workspace

Context:We are utilizing an Azure Databricks workspace for data management and model serving within our project, with delegated VNet and subnets configured specifically for this workspace. However, we are consistently observing malicious flow entries...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hello everyone! We have worked with our security team, Microsoft, and other customers who have seen similar log messages. This log message is very misleading, as it appears to state that the malicious URI was detected within your network â€” this would...

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peachum
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Unable to add a databricks permission to existing policy

Hi,   We're using databricks provider v1.49.1 to manager our Azure databricks cluster and other resources.    Having an issue setting permissions with the databricks terraform resource "databricks_permissions" where the error indicates that the clust...

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Walter_C
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Is this cluster policy a custom policy? If you try for testing purposes to modify it in the UI does it allows you to  

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