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quakenbush
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My trial is about to expire

I'm aware, my workspace/subscription will be converted into a 'pay-as-you-go' model. That's okay - however I wonder why you don't provide a non-restricted plan just for learning. I'm sure there are ways to block commercial use. However, that's not my...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @quakenbush ,In the past you had to create a new VNet injected workspace and migrate all workloads from the existing managed workspace to enable VNet injection. This process was necessary because there was no direct way to convert a managed worksp...

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martkev
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Skepticism about U2M OAuth: Does Snowflake Federation Actually Switch User Identity per Query?

Hi everyone,I'm currently setting up Snowflake federation with Databricks using Microsoft Entra ID (U2M OAuth). However, I'm skeptical that the connection truly switches the user identity dynamically for each Databricks user (https://docs.databricks....

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mark_ott
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Snowflake federation with Databricks using Microsoft Entra ID (U2M OAuth) is intended to support per-user identity propagation—that is, each Databricks user is supposed to have queries executed under their own Snowflake identity at query time, rather...

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Escarigasco
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Resolved! Azure Databricks Meters vs Databricks SKUs from system.billing table

When it comes to DBU, I am being charged by Azure for the following meters:- Premium Jobs Compute DBU <-- DBUs that my job computes are spending- Premium Serverless SQL DBU <-- DBUs that the SQL Warehouse compute is spending- Premium All-Purpose Phot...

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Escarigasco
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Thank you Bianca, great answer!

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Nisha_Tech
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Databricks Asset Bundle Deployment Fails in GitHub Actions with Federated Identity Credentials

I am using a service principal with workspace admin access to deploy Databricks asset bundles. The deployment works successfully via Jenkins using the same credentials and commands. However, when attempting the deployment through GitHub Actions, I en...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Environment variables override .databrickscfg, that's why it is probably failing to OIDC. Make sure that you have correct specification in your databricks.yml so it will be source of true. Smth like: - name: Deploy bundle env: DATABRICKS_HOST: ...

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Raman_Unifeye
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TCO calculator for Databricks Analytics

Similar to the cloud infra calculators, is there a TCO calculator exist for Databricks?Lets say we have the inputs such as Number of source tables, data pipelines (estimated number), data growth per day, transfromation complexity and target reports a...

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Raman_Unifeye
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@szymon_dybczak - I am aware of that calculator, however, the challenge is - how to even calculate the number of DBU it will consume based on the volume of data processing etc. The tool starts with the Infra and compute inputs. However, my question i...

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IvanPopov
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Does Databricks support HNS in GCP?

Hello,I need to set up some buckets in GCP which will be used as an analytics and productive data lake. I am getting diverging feedback on whether hierarchical namespaces (HNS) should be enabled for these buckets.On one hand, HNS is advisable for ana...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @IvanPopov ,According to docs Google Cloud Storage hierarchical namespace (HNS) is not supported with external locations. You must disable hierarchical namespace before creating an external location. 

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nk-five1
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UC volumes not useable in Apps?

I have to install some custom library in a Python Databricks App. According to the documentation this should be possible through UC volumes:https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dev-tools/databricks-apps/dependencies#install-wheel-files-from-unity-catal...

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Hubert-Dudek
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skarpeck
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Lakebase not accessible in Private Network

We have a VNET Injected workspace in Azure. There are multiple SQL Warehouse which are easily accessible from Private Network - both directly from VM and via VPN on client's machine. We deployed Lakebase. Inside the Workspace, connectivity is working...

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AlekseiDiaz
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Internet Access from Serverless Databricks - free trial

Hi community. I started to use databricks quick set up free trial and I have been trying to access internet from a python notebook but I haven't been able to do so. Even my UI is different. Is it becasue I am using free trial?

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AlekseiDiaz
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I changed the set up and I linked it to aws workspace. It doesn't raise any error now.But I was using requests

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rmusti
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What is the maximum number of workspaces per account on GCP

I found this in the docs: "you can create at most 200 workspaces per week in the same Google Cloud project" -But that directly contradicts the 20 limit that is mentioned in resource limits docs  . But Azure has no limit, and AWS has a limit of 50. So...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @rmusti ,This is a bit confusing but not contradictory. Here's the important line in the docs:"For limits where Fixed is No, you can request a limit increase through your Databricks account team."So, below you have a table with resource limits. In...

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AxelM
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Only absolute paths are currently supported. Paths must begin with '/'

I am facing the above issue when using the Python Databricks SDK. I retreive the job-definition by "client.jobs.get()" and then try to create it on another workspace with"client.jobs.create()"Therefore the job-definition is correct and working fine o...

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iyashk-DB
Databricks Employee
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You’re hitting a Jobs validation rule that depends on where the notebook is sourced from. With Git-sourced jobs, notebook paths must be relative; with workspace-sourced jobs, paths must be absolute and start with “/”. If a task’s source is treated as...

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mount cifs volume on all purpose compute results in permission denied

I have all networking already set, nslookup resolves NAS server IP and connectivity is enabled from worker nodes to nas server. I am able to mount the same nas drive outside of databricks, I mean standalone linux vm in the same VPC where worker nodes...

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siva-anantha
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Hello, Could you provide with more information about why you want to attach NAS drive to Databricks cluster, please? I am no expert in Storage. As far as I understand, NAS will suffer with IO and Replication Bottlenecks, when attached to Distributed ...

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zaicnupagadi
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Resolved! Reaching out to Azure Storage with IP from Private VNET pool

Hey All,Is there a way for Databricks to reach out to Azure Storage using private endpoint?We would like no omit enabling access by "all trusted services".All resources are in the same VNET however when Databrics tries to reach out to Storage instead...

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zaicnupagadi
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Sorry for late reply - thank you for your help Nayan!

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maikel
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Agent outside databricks communication with databricks MCP server

Hello Community!I have a following use case in my project:User -> AI agent -> MCP Server -> Databricks data from unity catalog.- AI agent is not created in the databricks- MCP server is created in the databricks and should expose tools to get data fr...

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maikel
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Hello @mark_ott thank you very much for this! It gives me a lot of knowledge! I think that since data is stored in databricks we will go with MCP deployed there as well.I have next portion of questions - can you please tell me how to deploy my mcp se...

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