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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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saiV06
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Lakehouse Federation - Unable to connect to Snowflake using "PEM Private Key"

Hi,I'm currently using Lakehouse Federation feature on databricks to run queries against Snowflake datawarehouse. Today I'm using a service credential to establish the connection (user id & pwd), but I have to change it to use private key. I tried us...

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spd_dat
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Can AWS workspaces share subnets?

The docs state:"You can choose to share one subnet across multiple workspaces or both subnets across workspaces."as well as:"You can reuse existing security groups rather than create new ones."and on this page:"If you plan to share a VPC and subnets ...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @spd_dat, I will check with the team internally and try to replicate the same in my workspace. This should be possible as documentation indicates. Based on the error you are hitting, could you please share the configuration you are setting in your...

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Ashok_AWS
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Databricks SSO enableed to Azure AD and this set up was deleted

HI Team,The SSO was enabled on the Databricks account with Azure AD and the environment is on AWS platform.The enterprise application which was used is been deleted from azure AD. No emergency user access has been set up.It is locked up, possible to ...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @Ashok_AWS, Could you file a case with us, we can help you. Send a mail to: help@databricks.comhttps://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/resources/support

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Inna_M
by New Contributor III
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Question about moving to Serverless compute

Hi my organization is using Databricks in Canada Est region and Serverless isn't available in our region yet? at all?I would like to know if it is worth the effort to change region for the Canada Central, where Serverless compute is available. We do ...

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Inna_M
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hi Takuya Omi, thank you for responding. My question is: if we are to migrate our existing workspaces (3) and UC to Canada Central. Is it doable? Is it worth it? What does it imply? What are the best practices to do so?Thank you. 

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Bayees
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Removing storage account location from metastore fails

I am trying to remove the storage account location for our UC metastore. I am getting the error:I have tried assigning my user and service principal permission to create external location.

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Bayees
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I accomplished it by creating a storage account credential and external location manually. Then I was able to able the remove the metastore path.What then happen was that the path for __databricks_internal catalog was set to the storage account that ...

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spd_dat
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Resolved! How does a non-admin user read a public s3 bucket on serverless?

As an admin, I can easily read a public s3 bucket from serverless:spark.read.parquet("s3://[public bucket]/[path]").display()So can a non-admin user, from classic compute. But why does a non-admin user, from serverless (both environments 1 & 2) get t...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @spd_dat, Is the S3 bucket in the same region as your workspace? It might required using a IAM role / S3 bucket to allow the bucket even if it is public. Just for a test can you try giving the user who is trying the below permission: GRANT SELECT ...

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Wayne
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AWS custom role for Databricks clusters - no instance profile ARN

Try to follow the instructions to create custom IAM role for EC2 instance in Databricks clusters, but I can't find the instance profile ARN on the role. If I create a regual IAM role on EC2, I can find both role ARN and instance profile ARN.https://d...

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Takuya-Omi
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@Wayne I need to understand more about what you’re trying to achieve,but if you’re looking to grant permissions to the EC2 instances running behind a Databricks cluster using an instance profile, the following documentation provides a detailed explan...

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Anonymous
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Ryan_Chynoweth
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You can get the job details from the jobs get api, which takes the job id as a parameter. This will give you all the information available about the job, specifically the job name. Please note that there is not a field called "job description" in the...

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PoojaD
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system schema permission

I've Databricks workspace admin permissions and want to run few queries on system.billing schema to get more info on billing of dbx. Getting below errror: [INSUFFICIENT_PERMISSIONS] Insufficient privileges: User does not have USE SCHEMA on Schema 'sy...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hi @PoojaD, You should access an admin to get you access: GRANT USE SCHEMA ON SCHEMA system.billing TO [Your User];GRANT SELECT ON TABLE system.billing.usage TO [Your User];

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psgcbe
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Removing the trial version as it is running cost

HI, I have a trial version on my AWS which keeps running and is eating up a dollar per day for the last couple of days. How do I disable it and use it only when required or completely remove it? 

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Alberto_Umana
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Hello @psgcbe, You can follow below steps: Terminate All Compute Resources:First, navigate to the AWS Management Console.Go to the EC2 Dashboard.Select Instances and terminate any running instances related to your trial. Cancel Your Subscription:Afte...

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ErikApption
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Resolved! Timeout settings for Postgresql external catalog connection?

Is there any way to configure timeouts for external catalog connections? We are getting some timeouts with complex queries accessing a pgsql database through the catalog. We tried configuring the connection and we got this error  │ Error: cannot upda...

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Alberto_Umana
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Hello @ErikApption, there is no direct support for a connectTimeout option in the connection settings through Unity Catalog as of now. You might need to explore these alternative timeout configurations or consider adjusting your database handling to ...

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Christian_j
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Cannot create a workspace on GCP

Hi,I have been using Databricks for a couple of months and been spinning up workspaces with Terraform. The other day we decided to end our POC and move on to a MVP. This meant cleaning up all workspaces and GCP. after the cleanup was done I wanted to...

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MariuszK
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Did you try from Marketplace? You may get there more detailed error.

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