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Edyta
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Resolved! Delete Databricks account

Hi everyone, as in the topic, I would like to delete unnnecesarily created account. I have found outdated solutions (e.g. https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/how-to-delete-databricks-account/m-p/6323#M2501), but they do not work anym...

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eddiejobs
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What is the solution for this?I signed up with fooname@gmail.com by mistake instead of foo.name@gmail.com. Gmail ignores dots in the local part of an address and also ignores anything after a plus sign, so the mailbox still works. I do not want the D...

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neerajdubey_86
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Does enabling Photon improve performance while lowering compute costs?

Please refer screen shot and help in clarifying if enabling Photon lead to lower execution costs? 

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @neerajdubey_86,   Photon will almost certainly make your queries faster, but whether it also makes them cheaper depends on your workload.   Photon is Databricks native vectorized query engine. It replaces the JVM-based Spark execution layer with ...

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mariajsm
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Who pays cross-cloud egress for Delta Sharing from GCP to Azure?

Hi DBX community!! Are cross-cloud egress charges for a Databricks-to-Databricks #DeltaShare billed to the provider account, and do they apply when the shared objects are views backed by Cloudflare?I'm setting up a Delta Share using Databricks on GCP...

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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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Hi,   Interesting topic, I've pulled together some relevant info for you: TLDR If your underlying data is in Cloudflare R2, the cloud-provider egress charge for cross-cloud Delta Sharing is effectively zero because R2 does not charge for egress. Howe...

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AndreiaC
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Private listing of App Asset in Databricks Marketplace by 3rd Party Provider

Hello, Could you help confirm whether a third-party provider is able to publish an App asset type as a private listing within a Private Exchange?If this is supported, is it a self-service capability, or does it need to be enabled per account? And if ...

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balajij8
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@AndreiaC Databricks Apps are currently not supported as an asset type in Databricks Marketplace. While Marketplace supports data assets, tables, views, volumes, notebooks, machine learning models and MCP servers (Preview), Apps operate under a diffe...

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Abarghodrat
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How to get my Database account verified?

Hi,I am currently on a paid plan (Premium), but I can't find how to get my account verified. I need help and support team is referring me here to this forum to get help.Very interesting, how support team can't help, not sure.Anybody here who can help...

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sapatel10
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Unable to delete schema with no tables

I create Azure Databricks workspaces using Terraform. As a part of workspace creation I create the catalog and a schema in the catalog but not the tables. After this I follow below steps:1. Create managed tables in the schema using Databricks workspa...

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pradeep_singh
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As suggested by @ShamenParis 1 - DROP SCHEMA catalog_name.schema_name CASCADE;2 - resource "databricks_schema" "this" { catalog_name = databricks_catalog.this.name name = "example" force_destroy = true }

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cltj
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Three level name space naming standard

Hi all, I have not been successful in getting a good grip of the naming conventions for the three level name space. Initially i learned about bronze, silver and gold, but i am confused where to put this. The obvious choice may be to use the {catalog}...

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rkhand14_ltm
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@cltj This is a classic example of how an architecture can become difficult to scale over time. Initially, we onboarded only a few clients and maintained client-specific tables. However, as the number of clients grew, the solution resulted in a large...

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rkhand14_ltm
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Resolved! Account Console environment for demonstrating workspace management capabilities to clients ?

Hi Databricks Community,Is there a way for Databricks partners to obtain access to an Account Console environment for demonstrating workspace management capabilities to clients?We are looking for a sandbox, free-tier environment, or any partner lab s...

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rkhand14_ltm
Databricks Partner
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@Louis_Frolio   Thank you for sharing the details. I found the information very useful.

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Abishrp
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Account API and Workspace API RBAC

Hi,Currently, for my use case, I am using a service principal with Account Admin permissions to call account-level APIs. For workspace-level APIs, I am using a separate service principal with Workspace Admin permissions.Is there a way to avoid assign...

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balajij8
Esteemed Contributor II
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@Abishrp Most of the platform level administrative APIs require full Account Admin or Workspace Admin privileges. At the account level - tasks like workspace creation, listing all workspaces, managing account-wide settings, handling workspace assignm...

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vamsi_simbus
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How do ISVs prevent customers modifying a wheel deployed into their own Databricks workspace?

We're an ISV. Our product is a DLT pipelines, batch jobs, a Databricks App, and MLflowmodels — is installed into each customer's own Databricks workspace as a dedicateddeployment, using Asset Bundles with one target per customer. We maintain the code...

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balajij8
Esteemed Contributor II
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@vamsi_simbus You can stage the wheel & other files inside a Unity Catalog Volume governed by strict schema level RBAC. You can use a a dedicated Service Principal that owns the bundle resources (jobs, DLT pipelines, Databricks Apps etc). You can gra...

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advocatesiddhar
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What should I do if a business payment is made by cheque and the cheque gets bounced?

I’m looking for some general information about handling a situation where a business payment was made through a cheque, but the cheque was later returned unpaid by the bank.What are the usual steps after a cheque is dishonoured? For example, when sho...

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nafikazi
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Resolved! Estimating Databricks Annual Implementation and Licensing Costs in 2026

 Hello everyone,Good evening. I am a data analyst and a Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate. While I understand the platform from a technical perspective and recognize its value, I am still learning how to estimate the full financial impact ...

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balajij8
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@nafikazi  The framework you mapped out demonstrates a good understanding of how decisions dictate operational spend. Structuring the model around Year 1 implementation versus steady-state run rates, defining capacity tiers by team profile and establ...

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xx1datageek
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Resolved! NetSuite JDBC Driver 8.10.190.0 - Databricks support

Hi,Currently I'm trying to connect my databricks to Netsuite using Lakeflow connect. At the moment, Netsuite only provides JAR driver version 8.10.190.0. Would Databricks be supporting this version soon? If not yet, can I know when would Databricks b...

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adnan_alvee
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That version should work although documentation doesn't list it yet. Can you try out? If it fails I would recommend opening a support case with your workspace ID and the exact error message so the team can verify the allowlist status.

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amitsharma1707
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Resolved! Microsoft Fabric One and Databricks Unity Catalog — Bidirectional Access Without Data Movement

Hi everyone,We're working in a hybrid environment with both Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, and I want to understand the options for virtualizing data between the two platforms without physically moving or duplicating it — similar to how shortcuts w...

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kartikchoudhary
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One thing I'd evaluate before choosing between virtualization and replication is the ownership model.If Fabric and Databricks both need to operate on the same data, I'd look at four areas: authentication, governance/permissions, Delta feature compati...

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kosarchik
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Billing

Hello, where can I find a breakdown of usage from the monitoring.azure_costs.costs_details table? I filtered MeterCategory = 'Foundry Models' to find out who is using which models, but the data there is only aggregated.

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NandanHegde15
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Based on my understanding, that is the expected case. The Cost management gives data at aggregated level and not granular one. In case if there is a need to identifying user to model suage, then we would have to enable diagnostic setting into Azure A...

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