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Louis_Frolio
by Databricks Employee
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Databricks Serverless: Real World Implementations and Experiences

How have you leveraged Databricks Serverless to streamline your data workflows? We invite you to share your real-world experiences-which workloads have benefited most, what challenges you’ve encountered, and any best practices or tips you have for ma...

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Devuser
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Resolved! Tableau removal from catalog explorer

Is it possible to remove Tableau as a option from the Catalog Exproler (BI tools) when you want to open or explore the data? 

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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It is currently not possible to remove the Tableau option from the "BI tools" integration menu in the Databricks Catalog Explorer. Hope this helps.     Cheers, Lou.

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msserpa
by New Contributor II
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Can we turn off Playground & Marketplace for some users?

Hi Everyone,Hope all is well with you!I'm reaching out to the community for some advice on customizing our workspace settings. Specifically, I have two things I'm trying to figure out:Disabling the "Playground" Option: Is there a way to turn off the ...

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Wing139
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how can we turn on the playground option, i cannot find it

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ChinuLee
by New Contributor II
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Task level Definition

Hello, According to the databricks_job resource terraform documentation, the description argument is supported at the task level. However, when I update the Terraform configuration to include a task description, the terraform plan reflects the change...

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eniwoke
Contributor II
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Hi @ChinuLee, the task-level description appears to be hidden in the UI, both during manual creation and when viewing tasks after creation. However, it is visible when you choose the "View as Code" option, as shown below:So it is supported, just hidd...

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AlbertWang
by Valued Contributor
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Resolved! Cannot use Terraform to create Databricks Storage Credential

Hi all,When I use Terraform in an Azure DevOps pipeline to create Databricks Storage Credential, I got the following error. Has anybody met the same error before? Or is there any idea how to debug it? Error: cannot create storage credential: failed d...

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MichaelFu
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How exactly do you need to configure auth_type in this case? I tried different options but nothing seems to work. I also would like to use the Service Connection from Azure DevOps Pipeline to deploy Databricks via TerraformTaskV4@4.

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cgrass
by New Contributor III
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Creating Group in Terraform using external_id

The documentation here doesn't give much information about how to use `external_id` when creating a new group. If I reference the object_id for an Azure AD Group, the databricks group gets created but the members from the AD group are not added, nor ...

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MiPa
New Contributor II
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Greetings from the future! Now it is clear that external_id, which IS Azure's ObjectID, comes from the internal sync mechanism, that can be enabled in your account under previews:I was able to reference my security group in Terraform and create that ...

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gardenmap
by New Contributor II
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How to Optimize Delta Table Performance in Databricks?

I'm working with large Delta tables in Databricks and noticing slower performance during read operations. I've already enabled Z-ordering and auto-optimize, but it still feels sluggish at scale. Are there best practices or settings I should adjust fo...

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igorborba
New Contributor II
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Hi @gardenmap, if possible can you detail more?For example, in my case what I've done:For tables above 1TB as it's can segregated by date, we've decided to enable a partition by the date column;Independent if it's partitioned or not, we decided to ma...

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leo-machado
by New Contributor III
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Refresh permission on Lakeview Dashboard

Hi folks!I'm sure I'm not the only one, but our users have the tendency to click the big Refresh button on all dashboards every time they open them.Using resources efficiently is something I value deeply, so our team came up with a schedule policy - ...

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holly
Databricks Employee
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Hey @leo-machado , yes I did request it formally and shared this post with the team - heads up, once something has been prioritised it can still take between 6-18 months to build.

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antonionuzzo
by New Contributor III
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restrict workspace admin from creating service principal

Hello,I would like to restrict workspace admins from creating service principals and leave this privilege only to the account admin. Is this possible? I am aware of the RestrictWorkspaceAdmins command, but it does not meet my needs. Additionally, I h...

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Advika
Databricks Employee
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Hello @antonionuzzo! Based on the documentation and my understanding, there isn’t a built-in way to restrict the creation of service principals exclusively to account admins. And as you mentioned, the RestrictWorkspaceAdmins setting doesn’t cover thi...

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Th0rs7en
by New Contributor
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How to enable / setup OAuth for DBT with Databricks

I tried configure / setup DBT to authenticate with OAuth to Databricks, following the tutorials https://community.databricks.com/t5/technical-blog/using-dbt-core-with-oauth-on-azure-databricks/ba-p/46605 and https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/partner...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Here are some things to consider: Debugging and Setting Up OAuth Authentication with dbt and Databricks Steps to Analyze and Setup Authentication: 1. Verify Credentials and Configuration: - Double-check the auth_type: oauth is correctly specified, as...

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m_weirath
by New Contributor II
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Cannot remove users group "CAN_MANAGE" from /Shared

I have a Unity Catalog enabled workspace and I have full privileges including Account Admin.  I would like to be able to remove the "CAN_MANAGE" privilege from the "users" group.  According to the documentation, this should be possible.  According to...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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Hi, Can you please share the entire stacktrace to the cause of Cannot modify permissions of directory. Thanks!

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johnb1
by Contributor
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Resolved! Deploy Workflow only to specific target (Databricks Asset Bundles)

I am using Databricks Asset Bundles to deploy Databricks workflows to all of my target environments (dev, staging, prod). However, I have one specific workflow that is supposed to be deployed only to the dev target environment.How can I implement tha...

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asham
New Contributor II
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Hi, also curious about this update, this would be a really helpful feature for us since we have humongous job specifications that are specific for dev and test environments. Adding these to the top level databricks.yml file is really cluttering up ou...

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GeorgeFmz
by New Contributor II
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Serverless python version

In the documentation about serverless compute release notes, it is stated that "Serverless compute for notebooks and jobs uses environment versions", and that "Serverless compute always runs using the most recently released version listed here.". At ...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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It seems the configuration aligns with doc https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/release-notes/serverless/environment-version-two which specifies that the Python version in 3.11.10

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antonionuzzo
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! service principal control plane access management

hi, our account admin has created a service principal to automate job execution. however, our security team is concerned that, by design, anyone with the service principal credentials might access the control plane, where the service principal is def...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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On the docs it states: Service principals give automated tools and scripts API-only access to Databricks resources, providing greater security than using users accounts.https://docs.databricks.com/gcp/en/admin/users-groups/service-principals#what-is-...

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lucasbergamo
by New Contributor
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Issue with Verification Code Input on Login

Hello, I hope you're well.​I'd like to report a bug encountered when entering the verification code to log into the platform. When I type the code without Caps Lock enabled, the input field displays the characters in uppercase, but the code isn't acc...

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Advika
Databricks Employee
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Hello @lucasbergamo! Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I'll share this with the relevant team for further investigation. In the meantime, as a workaround you can continue using Caps Lock while entering the verification code to log in.

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