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Conlyn
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Resolved! Terraform databricks_grants errors on external_location

We are using terraform to setup Unity Catalog external locations and when using databricks_grants to set permissions on the external locations it throws the following error:  Error: cannot create grants: permissions for external_location-test_locatio...

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Conlyn
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I figured out my issue... The principal name is case sensitive and if the input value doesn't match the case of the email address or Group Name in the workspace/account it throws that ambiguous error.  

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Francis
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Setup Alerts to monitor cost in dartabricks

Hi Team Tech,Recently we had an huge bill in databricks and we want to somehow have an alerting system in place to monitor cost.Please can someone help me to know how to setup email notification for cost alerts in databricks.As we need to setup an em...

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TravBricks
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This is an old thread but for posterity... @Francis What you were looking for is not available in the workspace setting but in the account console. The unified way of tracking costs within Databricks is through System Tables, specifically billable us...

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ksenija
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Connecting Databricks and Azure Devops

Hi everyone,When I tried to create new Databricks job that is using a notebook from a repo, it asked me to set up Azure DevOps Services (Personal access token) in Linked Accounts under my username. And now every time I want to create a new branch or ...

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NandiniN
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Hi @ksenija , Looks like the Git credentials for the job uses a different account and are missing.  The job is configured to use {a particular user} but this account has credentials for {another configured user}. So you need to update the git details...

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746837
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Databricks and SMTP

Using databricks as aws partner trying to run python script to validate email addresses.  Whenever it gets to the smtp portion it times out.  I am able to telnet from python to the POP servers and get a response, I can ping domains and get replies, b...

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Babu_Krishnan
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@746837 , Did you resolve this issue ? 

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Kutbuddin
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Resolved! Stream Query termination using available now trigger and toTable.

We are running a streaming job in databricks with custom streaming logic which consumes a CDC stream from mongo and appends to a delta table, at the end of the streaming job we have a internal checkpointing logic which creates an entry into a table w...

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Kutbuddin
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I was expecting spark.sql(f"insert into table {internal_tab_name} values({dt})") to execute at the end after the streaming query was written to the table. What I observed:The spark sql query spark.sql(f"insert into table {internal_tab_name} values({d...

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phguk
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Efficient methods to make a temporary copy of a table

I'm using a tool (SAS) that doesn't inherently support time travel - that's to say it doesn't generate SQL including Timestamp or Version (for example). An obvious work-around could be to first copy/clone the version of the table, which SAS can then ...

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daniel_sahal
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@phguk I think that Shallow Clone would be the best solution here.

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radothede
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Monitoring VM costs using cluster pools

Hello,With ref to docs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/admin/account-settings/usage-detail-tags cluster tags are not propagated to VM when created within a pool.Is there any workaround for monitoring VM costs using cluster pools (j...

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radothede
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Dear @Retired_mod ,as You mentioned, Databricks does not provide out of the box support for VM usage monitoring for job clusters created from cluster pool.If we really want to use cluster pool, I would consider:1) splitting the pool into separate poo...

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radothede
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Databricks DBU pre-purchase

Hello there,are pre-purchased DBU still valid? Can we use it?https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/reservation-discount-databricksCan someone please explain how it works in practice, by example?What if I pre-puc...

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DBCU
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radothede
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@Retired_mod could you please kindly look at this one? Thank You in advance.

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Snoonan
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Resolved! Secrete management

Hi all, I am trying to use secrets to connect to my Azure storage account. I want to be able to read the data form the storage account using a pyspark notebook.Has anyone experience setting up such a connection or has good documentation to do so?I ha...

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DonatienTessier
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Hi Sean,There are two ways to handle secret scopes:databricks-backed scopes: scope is related to a workspace. You will have to handle the update of the secrets.Azure Key Vault-backed scopes: scope is related to a Key Vault. It means than you configur...

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Aiden-Z
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Resolved! Init script failure after workspace upload

We have a pipeline in Azure Devops that deploys init scripts to the workspace folder on an Azure Databricks resource using the workspace API (/api/2.0/workspace/import), we use format "AUTO" and overwrite "true" to achieve this. After being uploaded ...

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Aiden-Z
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If anyone else comes across this problem, the issue was a deployment powershell script was changing LF to CRLF before upload in the init script. The solution was to upload with LF line endings in the pipeline. 

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pawelmitrus
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Azure Databricks account api can't auth

Hi,does anyone know about any existing issue with azure databricks account api? I cannot do below:1. login with cli `databricks auth login --account-id <acc_id>, this is what I get https://adb-MY_ID.azuredatabricks.net/oidc/accounts/MY_ACC_ID/v1/auth...

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pawelmitrus
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UPDATE Solved, the very same solution started to work today from running a pipeline with tf - M2M auth. with a service principal with fed auth. That's the 2 from my above post.When trying to follow these steps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

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NadithK
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Public exposure for clusters in SCC enabled workspaces

Hi,We are facing a requirement where we need to somehow expose one of our Databricks clusters to an external service. Our organization's cyber team is running a security audit of all of the resource we use and they have some tools which they use to r...

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NadithK
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Hi @Retired_mod ,Thank you very much for the reply. But I don't think this actually resolves our concern.All these solutions talk about utilizing the databricks cluster to access/read data in Databricks. They focus on getting to the Databricks data t...

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leungi
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Resolved! Install system libraries on the cluster

The `Library` option in cluster config allows installation of language-specific libraries - e.g., PyPi for Python, CRAN for R.Some of these libraries - e.g., `sf` - require system libraries - e.g., `libudunits2-dev`, `libgdal-dev`.How may one install...

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feiyun0112
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you can install in init scripthttps://docs.databricks.com/en/init-scripts/index.html 

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otydos
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Authenticate with Terraform to Databricks Account level using Azure MSI(System assigned)

Hello, I want to authenticate with terraform to databricks account level with : Azure Managed Identity(System-assigned) of my Azure VMto perform operation like create group. I followed differents tutorial and the documentation on Azure and Databricks...

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DonatienTessier
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Hello,On my side, I always have to add the provider in each resource block.You can try that:  resource "databricks_group" "xxxxx" { provider = databricks.accounts display_name = "xxxxx" }  About authentication, you can also try to add:auth_type  ...

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