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DavidSzedlak
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Mismatch of Columns in databricks vs Athena.

We are trying to expose one of our external tables to databricks via unity catalog, but we are having an issue with column mismatch, ie few of our columns are not visible in databricks. Is this a known issue? If so, can anyone best advise me on where...

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lingareddy_Alva
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Hi @DavidSzedlak ,1.  Unity Catalog caches metadata for performance. If new columns were added to the source table after the initial creation, they may not be reflected.Run the following command to refresh metadata: ALTER TABLE <catalog>.<schema>.<ta...

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kch
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Timeout on docker pull in Databricks Container Services

Hello,There is a timeout that limits the size of images used in Docker Container Service. When using images containing large ML libraries, the size often exceeds the limit that could be pulled. Is there any plan to add parametrization of this timeout...

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kch
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Are there any new or planned changes in the policy?

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Aaron_Wong
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How do I simply disable someone's user account

I'm trying to do something seemingly very simple - disable someone's user account. I don't even want to delete the user, just disable it for the time being. How do I go about doing that? 

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maaz1
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 In Databricks, go to the Admin Console.Navigate to the Service Principals section.Create a Service Role (make sure it has necessary permissions (Admin Access).Generate OAuth TokenFollow the instructions in the Databricks documentation to generate ap...

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harripy
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Proper way to collect Statement ID from JDBC Connection

Hi, We are executing DML calls on Databricks SQL Warehouse programmatically, with Java and Python.There can be thousands of executions running on daily level, so in case of an error occurs, it would be very beneficial to spot the Statement ID of the ...

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oprime
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Found a way to extract it for below dbx-java library.-> databricks-jdbc library version : `2.6.32` private static String extractQueryIdFromDbxStatement(Hive42PreparedStatement statement) { byte[] guid = ((HiveJDBCNativeQueryExecutor) state...

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AnkurMittal008
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Secret Creation for Service Principal using API

There is API available to create a secret for Service Principal./api/2.0/accounts/{account_id}/servicePrincipals/{service_principal_id}/credentials/secretsCan anyone please help what has to be passed as authentication for this API ? This is looking a...

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Stefan-Koch
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hi @AnkurMittal008 In general, I do not recommend using tokens anymore. Instead, if you want to log in via databricks cli, you can use this command:databricks auth login --host https://accounts.azuredatabricks.net/ --account-id <YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID>This ...

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jeet414
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Reading delta table from ADLS gen2 using ABFS driver

Scenario - I have an ADLS g2 account and trying to read a delta table using ABFS driver. I am using Databricks Serverless compute. There are no firewalls in place as I am working with sample data. There's network line of sight between Databricks serv...

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Nivethan_Venkat
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Hi @jeet414,You can always read Delta table from ADLS storage in Databricks mount points: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dbfs/mountsThis is just experimental, please give it a try.Best Regards,Nivethan V

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PaulJones
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Querying view gives spurious error

When trying to query a view, my_view, we sometimes see a spurious error. This seems to occur after the table underlying the view has been updated. The error persists for a while and then it seems to fix itself. Error running query: [42501] [Simba][Ha...

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mnorland
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Are there DDL updates of the view going on?

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karthiknuvepro
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Databricks Workspace Access and Permissions

Hi Team,The GCP Databricks URL https://accounts.gcp.databricks.com/ for GCP Databricks is linked to the GCP Billing Account.We have two clients with separate GCP Organizations:client1.example.comclient2.example.comBoth GCP Organizations share the sam...

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mnorland
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@karthiknuvepro The Databricks Account should be handled by a third-party Cloud Administration team.  The workspace admins can work with them to set up the necessary cloud resources to support their catalogs and user adds/remove from their selected a...

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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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apinara
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Hello, Thank you for your questions and answers regarding this topic. Is it available this feature right now? Or still not supported? Thank you in advance

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mohsen-dbx
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Databricks Network Policies

Hi Databricks community. I have 2 questions that I'd appreciate if you can shed some lights on:Is the new Network Policies in Databricks account, only applicable to serverless compute or are these workspace-wide policies which apply to all other comp...

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Rjdudley
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I am not support, just a regular customer like you, but here is what I know:1. Yes, serverless egress only applies to serverless.  There is another upcoming change you'll need to make for your classic compute, announced by Microsoft at Default outbou...

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dawnCoder
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Vocareum Lab issue

Hi,I have taken a Lab Subscription from databricks academy. It worked fine for me for 1 day. As I try to login today, it is not starting up. I really appreciate any help in this regard. I have things as planned to do on the lab and when it is not sta...

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Deepa710
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Hi, was this resolved? can I know the solution please? Also, is there any restriction on the number of days or so to use this lab? I am getting 'Session ended' message even after I login again.RegardsDeepa

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patrykp
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AWS Secrets Manager access

HiI am trying to establish a method of accessing secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and understand this can be done with boto as suggested from AWS.We have created all of the relevant IAM roles, instance profiles etc.  Accessing S3 with this method is ...

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patrykp
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Hi @Alberto_Umana,Yes, the Role has the SecretsManagerReadWrite policy.Also within my furthet investigation I tried running it via Personal Cluster and it worked!Basically, 3 scenarios:- Shared Cluster with applied InstanceProfile - Secrets failing- ...

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Dnirmania
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Communication between multiple region workspaces & metastore

Hi EveryoneWe currently have a workspace and metastore in the EastUS region, and we’re planning to set up another workspace and metastore in the Canada region. Additionally, we need to be able to access data from the Canada region within the US regio...

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Advika_
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Hello @Dnirmania! Delta Sharing is ideal for read-only, cross-platform data access without duplication. Direct metastore connections offer low-latency access between Databricks workspaces under a unified governance model. Additionally, you may explor...

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ScottDunk
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Query not returning result - no internet connection

Hi,New to DBricks. We have set up our new environment and imported some data to tables.  However when we run a query against the table using a newly created warehouse we can see the query runs fine but throw the error: failed communicating with serve...

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emillion25
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It sounds like there might be a network configuration issue or a client-side problem preventing your query results from appearing in the session, even though they're executing successfully on the server. Here are a few things you could check:Network ...

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neointab
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Restrict a Workspace User from Creating/Managing Databricks Jobs

Hello Databricks team,I currently have a workspace user, and I want to disable their ability to create or manage Databricks jobs entirely. Specifically, I would like to prevent the user from accessing the "Create Job" option in the Databricks UI or v...

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JameDavi_51481
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Are there any updates on any of these internal feature requests? It's a pretty big failure in the permissions model that we can't prevent users from scheduling arbitrary workloads on compute they are able to access.

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