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pranav5
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Trying to Backup Dashboards and Queries from our Workspace.

We are using a databricks workspace and our IT team is decommissioning it as our time with it is being done. I have many queries and dashboards developed. I want to copy these, unfortunately when i download using zip or .dbc these queries or dashboar...

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bianca_unifeye
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NotebooksThese are the easiest assets to back up.You can export them individually or in bulk as:.dbc – Databricks archive format (can re-import directly into a new workspace).source or .py – raw code export (ideal for version control)To download in b...

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jzu
by New Contributor II
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Problem with Metastore

Hello community.We are facing an issue when deploying and configuring metastore using terraform. We are using Azure Devops pipeline for deployment. The identity running the pipeline is a managed identity and it's set as account admin in Account porta...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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@jzu , is this a new error or is it the same as before. I need more details please. Louis.

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ambigus9
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R-studio on Dedicated Cluster Invalid Access Token

Hello!! Currently I have an R-studio installed on a Dedicated Cluster over Azure Databricks, here are the specs:I must to make enfasis over the Access mode: Manual and Dedicated to a Group.Here, we install R-studio using a notebook with the following...

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mark_ott
Databricks Employee
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You’re seeing two key issues with your RStudio Server on Azure Databricks: RStudio stops working after 1–2 days. You get permission errors using sparklyr and can’t update the Connections pane. Let’s address each: 1. RStudio Server Stops Working A...

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Carelytix
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Signing up BAA requiring Compliance Security Profile activation

Hello folks —  I need help with enabling compliance security profile for my account. I need this to execute/sign a HIPPA BAA on my account. For this, I need an enhanced security & compliance add-on for this. I first reached out to help@databricks.com...

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Carelytix
New Contributor III
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I was able to turn this feature on by upgrading the plan to "Enterprise". Thanks!

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unj1m
by New Contributor III
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Getting "Data too long for column session_data'" creating a CACHE table

Hi, I'm trying to leverage CACHE TABLE to create temporary tables that are cleaned up at the end of the session.In creating one of these, I'm getting  Data too long for column 'session_data'.  The query I'm using isn't referencing a session_data colu...

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stbjelcevic
Databricks Employee
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Thanks for sharing the details—this is a common point of confusion with caching versus temporary objects in Databricks. What’s likely happening The error message “Data too long for column 'session_data'” is emitted by the metastore/metadata persiste...

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sebastiandz
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Azure Network Connectivity Configurations API failing

It seems like since yesterday evening (Europe time) there's a platform-side issue with Network Connectivity Configurations API on Azure Databricks Accounts.API calls are being redirected to a login page, causing multiple different tools, such as Terr...

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stbjelcevic
Databricks Employee
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I can't speak to this specific incident as it was over a year ago, but for future reference: Monitoring Databricks service health Please subscribe to the Azure Databricks Status Page for your region(s) and the specific components you use. You can opt...

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axelboursin
by New Contributor II
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Databricks and AWS CodeArtifact

Hello, I saw multiple topics about it, but I need explanations and a solution.In my context, we have developers that are developing Python projects, like X.In Databricks, we have a cluster with a library of the main project A that is dependent of X.p...

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stbjelcevic
Databricks Employee
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Hi @axelboursin , I think this article will help you out: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/admin/workspace-settings/default-python-packages (option 1 below). Recommended approaches (choose based on your environment): For broad, consistent behavior...

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jeffreym9
by New Contributor III
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Databricks Managed MLFlow with Different Unity Catalog for Multi-tenant Production Tracing

Is the Databricks Managed MLFlow only trace LLM traffic through Serving Endpoint? Does it support manual tracing in my LLM application with decorator @mlflow.trace ?Also, How can Databricks Managed MLFlow support multi-tenant cases where traces need ...

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stbjelcevic
Databricks Employee
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Hi @jeffreym9 , Managed MLflow Tracing captures traces in notebooks, local IDEs, jobs, and Serving Endpoints—via autologging or manual instrumentation, so it’s not limited to Serving Endpoints-only. Set your tracking URI to databricks and traces are...

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Marco37
by Contributor II
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Resolved! Writing data from Azure Databrick to Azure SQL Database

Good day,We have a customer who wanted to query an Azure SQL Database from a Databricks notebook. We have configured a connection and a catalog for him and he is able to query the Azure SQL Database. Now he has a new request. He also wants to write d...

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Coffee77
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You can customize the below code, that makes use of Spark SQL Server access connector, as per your needs: def PersistRemoteSQLTableFromDF( df: DataFrame, databaseName: str, tableName: str, mode: str = "overwrite", schemaName: str ...

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JeremySu
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! A question about Databricks Fine-grained Access Control (FGAC) cost on dedicated compute

Hi All,recently, while testing Fine-grained Access Control (FGAC) on dedicated compute, I came across something that seems a bit unusual, and I’d like to ask if anyone else has seen similar behavior.I created a view with only one record, and had anot...

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JeremySu
New Contributor III
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Hi @mark_ott Thank you very much for providing such a detailed and insightful explanation.This clearly resolves our confusion as to why an FGAC query that ran for only a few seconds ultimately incurred the DBU consumption shown on the bill, due to th...

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kfadratek
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Resolved! Issue Using Private CA Certificates for Databricks Serverless Private Git → On-Prem GitLab Connectio

Hi everyone,I’m trying to properly configure Databricks Serverless Private Git to connect to our on-premises GitLab, but I'm running into issues with private CA certificates.Following the latest Databricks recommendations, our connection to GitLab go...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Hello @kfadratek ,  thanks for the detailed context — Let's take a look at what could be causing the SSL verification to fail with a custome CA in Serverless Private Git and discuss some approaches that might resolve it. What’s likely going wrong   B...

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pablogarcia
by New Contributor II
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AiGatewayConfig non backward compatibly issue from 16.3 to 16.4

We're moving form version 16.3 to version 16.4 LTD, and looks like there is a non backward compatibly issue.  This is the import that I have in my codefrom databricks.sdk.service.serving import ( # type: ignore # noqa ServedModelInput, # type:...

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mark_ott
Databricks Employee
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The error indicates that AiGatewayConfig cannot be imported from databricks.sdk.service.serving after upgrading from version 16.3 to 16.4 LTD, signaling a breaking change or removal in the SDK. Why This Happens With minor version updates, Databricks ...

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mo_moattar
by New Contributor III
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Would it be great if the job workflow supports running docker-based tasks

The current workflow function in Databricks gives a series of options such as DLT, Dbt, python scripts, python files, JAR, etc. It would be good to add a docker file to that and simplify the development process a lot, especially on the unit and integ...

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jack_zaldivar
Databricks Employee
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Hi @mo_moattar ! Is this still some functionality you're interested in? If so, can you explain a bit more on the use case you're thinking? I'm happy to add this to our feature requests internally, but I know that the Product team will likely request ...

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clentin
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Resolved! Databricks Community - Cannot See Reply To My Posts

Databricks Community - Cannot See Reply To My Posts.Am I the only one facing this issue or others are also facing the same.  

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jack_zaldivar
Databricks Employee
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@clentin , I know this is a response to an older post, but I'm wondering if you ever got this resolved or not? I am able to view the responses to your initial post, so I took the liberty of adding them as screenshots for you. Hope this helps!  

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Prasad329
by New Contributor
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Automating Version Control for Databricks Workflows

I am currently using Databricks Asset Bundles to manage and deploy workflows. While I have successfully automated the version control for notebooks, I am facing challenges with workflows. Specifically, I am looking to automate the process of fetching...

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mark_ott
Databricks Employee
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Automating the reverse synchronization of Databricks workflow (Job) changes made in the Databricks UI back to a GitHub repository is a significant challenge, mainly due to the intentional directionality and guardrails imposed by Databricks Asset Bund...

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