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PiotrM
by New Contributor III
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Drop table - permission management

Hello,I'm trying to wrap my head around the permission management for dropping tables in UC enabled schemas.According to docs: To drop a table you must have the MANAGE privilege on the table, be its owner, or the owner of the schema, catalog, or meta...

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PiotrM
New Contributor III
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Hey,any news about this functionality being implemented? Br

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JoaoPigozzo
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Unity Catalog design in single workspace: dev/prod catalogs and schemas for projects — should we add

Hello everyone,We are currently designing our Unity Catalog structure and would like feedback on whether our approach makes sense and how it could be improved.Context:We use a single Databricks workspace shared by Data Engineering and Data Science/ML...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Hey @JoaoPigozzo  — great question. This one comes up all the time with the customers I train. I’ve been doing this for quite a while now and have had the chance to see a wide range of implementations and approaches out in the wild. While there’s no ...

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ckunal_eng
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Need help with changing RunAs owner

Dear Contributors,I have a scenario where I am required to trigger a couple of jobs (lets say 4) based on the success of a master job. The master job has a Service Principal attached to it, which is the owner. It is going to produce a list of items w...

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Raman_Unifeye
Honored Contributor III
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@ckunal_eng - One single Databricks Job run cannot dynamically change its "Run As" identity during execution. Rather you will need a pattern that separates the triggering identity from the executing identity.I would pre-configure 4 dependent jobs wit...

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Charuvil
by Contributor
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Resolved! How to disable storage account key access of workspace storage accounts?

Each Azure Databricks workspace has an associated Azure storage account in a managed resource group known as the workspace storage account. The workspace storage account includes workspace system data (job output, system settings, and logs), DBFS roo...

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Charuvil
Contributor
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Thank you @Raman_Unifeye  and @nayan_wylde  it helped

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margarita_shir
by New Contributor III
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Databricks AWS deployment with custom configurations (workspace root storage)

Hi everyone,I have a question about the IAM role for workspace root storage when deploying Databricks on AWS with custom configurations (customer-managed VPC, storage configurations, credential configurations, etc.).At an earlier stage of our deploym...

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MoJaMa
Databricks Employee
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Great question. [1] In the pre-UC world when you created a workspace you would designate a bucket/container that was used for what was most commonly known as DBFS. ie it's where the hive-metastore managed tables would be stored by default along with ...

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hgintexas
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! system.lakeflow.job_task_run_timeline table missing task parameters on for each loop input

The system.lakeflow.job_task_run_timeline does not include the task level parameters on the input of the for each loop if dynamically setting the parameter in another notebook using dbutils.jobs.taskValues.set. This information is not included in the...

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stbjelcevic
Databricks Employee
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Hi @hgintexas , You’re right, the system job timeline tables and the Runs API don’t currently surface the resolved per‑iteration inputs for a For-each task when those inputs are sourced via task values set in another notebook with dbutils.jobs.taskVa...

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Giuseppe_C
by New Contributor
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Databricks import directory false positive import

Hello evryone,I'm using databricks CLI to moving several directories from Azure Repos to Databricks Workspace.The problem is that files are not updating properly, with no error to display.The self-hosted agent in pipeline i'm using has installed the ...

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stbjelcevic
Databricks Employee
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Hi @Giuseppe_C , Can you try running the command with the --debug flag to see if there is any additional information that you can gather? Full command: databricks import-dir <source> <dest> --overwrite --debugAlso, verify that the target path is not ...

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erigaud
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Resolved! DLT-Asset bundle : Pipelines do not support a setting a run_as user that is different from the owner

Hello !We're using Databricks asset bundles to deploy to several environments using a devops pipeline. The service principal running the CICD pipeline and creating the job (owner) is not the same as the SPN that will be running the jobs (run_as).This...

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Coffee77
Honored Contributor III
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Maybe I'm not catching this or missing something else but I've got the following job in one of my demo workspaces:Creator is my user and the job runs as a service principal account. Those are different identities. I got this by deploying the job with...

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margarita_shir
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! aws databricks with frontend private link

 In aws databricks documentation, frontend PrivateLink assumes a separate transit VPC connected via Direct Connect/VPN. However, I'm implementing a different architecture using Tailscale for private network access.My setup: Tailscale subnet router de...

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margarita_shir
New Contributor III
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Hi everyone,I have a question about the IAM role for workspace root storage when deploying Databricks on AWS with custom configurations (customer-managed VPC, storage configurations, credential configurations, etc.).At an earlier stage of our deploym...

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NatJ
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Removing access to Lakehouse and only allowing Databricks One?

Hello, I am trying to set up a user group for business users in our Azure Databricks that will only be able to query data. It looks like Databricks One is the solution to use. So I followed the documentation and granted the user group Consumer Access...

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NatJ
New Contributor III
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Yeah, that was it. I had set up Databricks with Entra groups from the beginning and had done all my permission work there. I didn't even think of checking the default groups. Thank you! 

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emanueol
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! how to complete connection to snowflake

Hi all,Simple test creating connection to my snowflake trial account was successful, and..Anyway:dbx > external data > connections > create connection > ... > [Test] successful but still see last 2 steps todo (5 access, 6 metadata) but don't see any ...

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @emanueol ,From you description it seems that you were able to set up connection. Not every step in the wizard has "next button". From example in step 4 (catalog basic) if you create a catalog then you will be automatically transfered to the next ...

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RichC
by New Contributor
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Resolved! scroll bar disappears on widgets in dashboards

Databricks newbie.I've created a dashboard that has several widgets to allow users to select multiple values from a drop-down list.  When I first open the widget to select the values, there is a scroll bar on the right side of the box which allows me...

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Advika
Community Manager
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Hello @RichC! You’re not missing any setting here. This is expected behavior. The scrollbar auto-hides after a couple of seconds, but it’s still active. If you start scrolling again (mouse wheel or trackpad), the scrollbar will reappear.

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simenheg
by New Contributor II
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Tracing SQL costs

Hello, Databricks community!In our Account Usage Dashboard, the biggest portion of our costs are labeled simply "SQL".We want to drill deeper to see where the SQL costs are coming from.By querying the `system.usage.billing` table we see that it's mos...

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Raman_Unifeye
Honored Contributor III
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@simenheg - first of all, It’s not an error as Serverls SQL often produces null metadata fields.So you will need to follow below steps for the costUse SQL Warehouse Query Historyjoin billing data with SQL query history - system.billing.usage.usage_da...

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abhijit007
by Databricks Partner
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Resolved! AI/BI Dashboard embed issue in Databricks App

Hi everyone,I’ve created an AI/BI Dashboard in Azure Databricks and successfully published it, generated an embed link. My goal is to embed this dashboard inside a Databricks App (Streamlit) using an iframe.However, when I try to render the dashboard...

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AIBI Dashboard
Databricks Apps
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abhijit007
Databricks Partner
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Hi @Louis_Frolio ,I have made changes my master menu with page navigation and used iframe inside submenu and it does work... Thanks for your insightful solution.

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kumarV
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Databricks Job : Unable to read Databricks job run parameter in scala code and sql query.

we are created data bricks job with Jar (scala code) and provided parameters/jar parameters and able to read those as arguments in main method.  we are running job with parameters (run parameters / job parameters) , those parametes are not able to re...

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kumarV
New Contributor II
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Hi  @Louis_Frolio Thank you for your suggestion. We are following the approach you recommended, but we encountered an issue while creating the job.We are creating a Databricks job using a JSON file through a pipeline. When we declare job-level parame...

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