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r_w_
by Databricks Partner
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Resolved! Best Practices for Mapping Between Databricks and AWS Accounts

Hi everyone, this is my first post here. I'm doing my best to write in English, so I apologize if anything is unclear.I'm looking to understand the best practices for how many environments to set up when using Databricks on AWS. I'm considering the f...

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Isi
Honored Contributor III
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Hey @r_w_ If you think my answer was correct, it would be great if you could mark it as a solution to help future users Thanks,Isi

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Rvwijk
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! New default notebook format (IPYNB) causes unintended changes on release

Dear Databricks,We have noticed the following issue since the new default notebook format has been set to IPYNB. When we release our code from (for example) DEV to TST using a release pipeline built in Azure DevOps, we see unintended changes popping ...

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dkushari
Databricks Employee
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Hi @Rvwijk, please take a look at this. This should solve your issue. I suspect the mismatch is happening due to the previous ones, including output for the notebook cells. You may need to perform a rebase of your repository and allow the output to b...

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hasanakhuy
by New Contributor
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Resolved! AIM with Entra ID Groups – Users and Service Principals not visible in Workspace

Hello Community, I am testing Automatic Identity Management (AIM) in Databricks with Unity Catalog enabled. Steps I did:      •     AIM is activated      •     In Microsoft Entra ID I created a group g1 and added user u1 and service principal sp1    ...

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dkushari
Databricks Employee
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In Azure Databricks, when AIM is enabled, Entra users, service principals, and groups are available in Azure Databricks as soon as they’re granted permissions. Group memberships, including nested groups, flow directly from Entra ID, so permissions al...

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help_needed_445
by Contributor
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Questions About Notebook Debugging Tools

I'm researching the different ways to debug in databricks notebooks and have some questions.1. Can the python breakpoint() function be used in notebooks? This article says it can be used https://www.databricks.com/blog/new-debugging-features-databric...

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jack_zaldivar
Databricks Employee
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Hi @help_needed_445 ! Can you give a bit more information on your environment? Which cloud are you operating in where you are not able to use the native debugging tool? I have tested in an Azure workspace by adding a breakpoint in the gutter of a spe...

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ctgchris
by New Contributor III
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User Token Forwarding Between App?

I have a streamlit databricks app that is intended to be a frontend UI app. I also have a FastAPI databricks app that is intended to be a middleware app. I want my streamlit app to query the middleware app for all business logic and databrick queries...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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Jhaprakash6608
by New Contributor
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Resolved! Spark executor logs path

We are running spark workloads and have enabled cluster log discovery to push executor logs to Azure blog. While that's running fine, I'd also like to know the local path of the executor logs so that I can make use of oneagent from dynatrace and send...

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Krishna_S
Databricks Employee
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Local Executor Log Path on Azure Databricks Executor logs are written locally on each executor node under the work directory: The path pattern is: /databricks/spark/work/<app-id>/<executor-id> For example: /databricks/spark/work/app-20221121180310-00...

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ctgchris
by New Contributor III
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User OBO Token Forwarding between apps

Can user OAuth tokens be forwarded between Databricks Apps for on-behalf-of (OBO) authorization?I have two Databricks Apps deployed in the same workspace:1. **UI App** (Streamlit) - configured with OAuth user authorization2. **Middleware App** (FastA...

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Khaja_Zaffer
Esteemed Contributor
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Hello @ctgchris Just pushing this issue for visibility to others. Someone from databricks can come up with a solution. 

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noklamchan
by New Contributor II
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How to access UnityCatalog's Volume inside Databricks App?

I am more familiar with DBFS, which seems to be replaced by UnityCatalog Volume now. When I create a Databricks App, it allowed me to add resource to pick UC volume. How do I actually access the volume inside the app? I cannot find any example, the a...

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nayan_wylde
Esteemed Contributor II
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Apps don’t mount /Volumes and don’t ship with dbutils. So os.listdir('/Volumes/...') or dbutils.fs.ls(...) won’t work inside an App. Use the Files API or Databricks SDK instead to read/write UC Volume files, then work on a local copy.Code using Pytho...

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rabbitturtles
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Databricks Apps On behalf of user authorization - General availability date?

Currently Databricks apps on behalf of user authorization is in public-preview. Any idea when this would be generally available or where I can see it's release plan?https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/release-notes/product/2025/march#databricks-apps-c...

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WiliamRosa
Databricks Partner
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Hi @rabbitturtles Additionally, you can subscribe to the Databricks Newsletter and join the Product Roadmap Webinars, where they announce all the latest private previews.”https://www.databricks.com/resources?_sft_resource_type=newsletters

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sparkplug
by Contributor
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Resolved! Databricks service principal token federation on Kubernetes

Hi I am trying to create a service principal federation policy against AKS cluster. But I am struggling to make it work without any examples. It would be great if you could share examples on how this would work for a service account.Additionally, wha...

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sparkplug
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I am currently using a two step process, logging in using azure library and then getting an access token from Azure using the databricks scope. And then using that to authorize towards Databricks. I would like to use `env-oidc` auth type instead, but...

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ez
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! SQLSTATE: 42501 - Missing Privileges for User Groups

Dear AllI'm investigating missing privileges for some of our users.When connecting to an Oracle database via JDBC and attempting to display a DataFrame, we encounter the following error:User does not have permission SELECT on any file. SQLSTATE: 4250...

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ez
New Contributor II
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@nayan_wylde thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for and could not find

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vvijay61
by Databricks Partner
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SAT Tool Scan other workspaces

Hello Team, i have been setting up SAT in my Databricks workspace and i am able to do it and scan in my workspace. i have provided my SP access to all other Workspaces as well  When i run the initialize job (SAT Initializer Notebook (one-time)) , I c...

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nayan_wylde
Esteemed Contributor II
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It seems like a access is denied by network policy. You have to update Network Policy for Serverless at account levelIn Account Console → Cloud Resources → Policies → Serverless Egress Control → default-policyCheck the Allow access to all destination...

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mereud
by New Contributor
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Databricks bundle error

Hi everyone,I'm encountering an issue during deployment with Terraform on Databricks.The error I get is:Error: failed to read remote state file: stream error: stream ID 21; NO_ERROR; received from peerOn another attempt (after a manual mistake on my ...

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-werners-
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Yes, I also find that sometimes the deploy fails. F.e. when cluster config using policies has changed or when you want to use  mixed node types in combination with policies.What I do is do destroy the bundle or the job that gives issues.Then deploy.T...

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taksheel-a-n
by Databricks Partner
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Can a Databricks App (React-based) be published on the Databricks Marketplace?

Hi everyone,I’ve been exploring Databricks Apps and building a frontend using React within the Databricks environment. I wanted to know if it’s currently possible to publish a Databricks App to the Databricks Marketplace, similar to how datasets, not...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
Databricks Partner
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Hi @taksheel-a-n According to the documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/marketplace/ . Here's a list of the types of assets that are supported:According to this post, there's not a public facing roadmap: https://community....

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DavidRobinson
by New Contributor
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Transition from SCIM to AIM

We're in the process of transitioning our Azure Databricks instance from SCIM-based provisioning to Automated Identity Management (AIM), now that AIM is generally available. Once enabled, AIM becomes the authoritative source for managing users, group...

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nayan_wylde
Esteemed Contributor II
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@DavidRobinson Let me know how it goes. This is in my to-do list too as we are facing a lot of issues with SCIM like nested group sync and SPN syncs. One of the issue that I can think of is AIM respects nested groups from Entra, which SCIM didn’t. So...

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