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sharat_n
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Delta Lake: Running Delete and writes concurrently

Is it safe to run a delete query when there are active writes to a delta lake table? Next question : Is it safe to run a vacuum when writes are being done actively?  

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radothede
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Hello @sharat_n ,Yes, it is generally safe to run a DELETE query on a Delta Lake table while active writes are happening.Delta Lake is designed with ACID transactions, meaning operations like DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE are atomic and isolated.In other...

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chaaaaaarlie
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Resolved! Missing 'Permissions' settings for Delta Live Tables Pipelines

Context: Azure Databricks, I am account admin, workspace admin, and pipeline owner (as confirmed via the API and visually in the Pipelines screen). When attempting to grant CAN_MANAGE access to developers for our DLT pipelines via the Databricks web ...

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Walter_C
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If you click on the link of the Pipeline and then you access the kebab menu you will see the Permissions page  

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sjs
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Unable to create a databricks workspace

I am unable to create a databricks workspace with vnet injection. I get this error:│ { │ "status": "Failed", │ "error": { │ "code": "InternalServerError", │ "message": "INTERNAL_ERROR: Unexpected error: Cannot call getCertifiedMetastoreFo...

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sjs
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The issue resolved itself when I tried to create a new resource group, dedicated to just Databricks. I don't know why that worked. If anyone know what went wrong, I would appreciate feedback!

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arkadiuszr
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Resolved! Unable to access Live Ganglia UI

I’m having a trouble accessing Ganglia UI on a job run cluster. The job run is executed by a service principal and I would like to enable the Ganglia UI view to an user/admin group in Databricks. The error I get is: HTTP ERROR 403 PERMISSION_DENIED: ...

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shan_chandra
Databricks Employee
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Hi @arkadiuszr  -  can you please try the following steps and let us know? To resolve this error, first you want to add your service principal to the workspace: Go to admin console as a workspace adminSelect “service principal tab”Click “Add service ...

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art1
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Resolved! How to get rid of a pesky gen AI feature in the editor ?

Hi,The editor interface has that gen AI feature following empty lines with a cursor. I find that very distracting and irritating. More over, once a line is deleted that unsolicited thing is interfering with code (snapshots included).How to get rid of...

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art1
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Summary:I was not able to solve the UI/UX artifact on my own (on user side)The UI/UX issue was resolved somewhere on Databricks side. The UI/AX artifact is no longer interfering with work.

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mannepk85
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Resolved! Attach a databricks_instance_pool to databricks_cluster_policy via terraform

Hello Team,I am trying to create a databricks instance pool and attach it to a cluster policy in our terraform code. But I am having hard time finding a good documentation. Has any one done it? Below is my sample code and I am getting errorI keep get...

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mannepk85
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Fixed it! "instance_pool_id" : { type = "fixed" values = "databricks_instance_pool.dev_test_cluster_pool.id"}

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SanthoshKumarK
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Lakehouse federation -' on behalf of ' queries

Is it possible to achieve the following in a lake-house federation setup using Azure Databricks?1. Establish an external connection (EC1) to an external data source (EDS) using the credentials of user U1.2. Create a foreign catalog (FC1) utilizing EC...

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SanthoshKumarK
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Thanks for explaining the authorization flow, @rangu . In the example mentioned, does Databricks support passing the user’s credentials to an external data source? For instance, can it pass the OAuth token for the user along with the externalID crede...

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noorbasha534
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Libraries installation governance

Dear allI like to know the best practices around libraries installation on Databricks compute - all-purpose, job.The need is to screen the libraries, conduct vulnerability tests, and then let them be installed through a centralized CI/CD process. How...

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noorbasha534
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@filipniziol thanks again for your time. The thing is we like to block access to these URLs as at times we found developers & data scientists downloading packages that were marked as vulnerable by Maven.

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VJ5
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Azure Databricks Serverless Compute

Hello,Looking for documents related to Azure Databricks Serverless Compute. What are the things we need to consider for security point of view when we decide to use serverless compute? 

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David-jono123
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These steps are really helpful. I especially appreciate the reminder to check my credentials and consider browser-related issues, as those are often overlooked. I'll make sure to clear my cache and cookies first, and if that doesn't work, I’ll try us...

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matthiasjg
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How to NOT install or disable or uninstall Databricks Delta Live Tables dlt module on jobs cluster?

I need to NOT have the Databricks Delta Live Tables (DLT) Python stub installed on job cluster b/c of naming conflict w/ pip library dlt (and I also don't need delta live tables).There is no "simple" way of uninstalling. It's not installed via pip as...

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matthiasjg
New Contributor II
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For anyone facing a similar problem: I've addressed the issue of the dlt module conflict on my job cluster, by using an init script to remove the dlt module from the cluster's Python environment.Simply by doing:%bash #!/bin/bash rm -rf /databricks/sp...

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JessieWen
by Databricks Employee
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legacy repo error fetching git status files over 200MB

Working directory contains files that exceed the allowed limit of 200 MB.  how to solve this?

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filipniziol
Esteemed Contributor
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Hi @JessieWen ,What you can do besides removing some files from the repo, is to use "Sparce mode" and select only certain paths to be synchronized with Databricks repos. Hope it helps

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harripy
by New Contributor III
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Databricks SQL connectivity in Python with Service Principals

Tried to use M2M OAuth connectivity on Databricks SQL Warehouse in Python:from databricks.sdk.core import Config, oauth_service_principal from databricks import sql .... config = Config(host=f"https://{host}", client_...

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Mat_Conquest
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Did anyone get this to work? I have tried the code above but I get a slightly different error but I don't see the same level of details from the logs2024-10-04 14:59:25,508 [databricks.sdk][DEBUG] Attempting to configure auth: pat2024-10-04 14:59:25,...

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OU_Professor
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Connect Community Edition to Power BI Desktop

I have submitted this question several times to Databricks over the past few weeks, and I have gotten no response at all, not even an acknowledgement that my request was received.Please help.How can I connect a certain dataset in Databricks Community...

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Knguyen
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Hi @Retired_mod,It seams the Commnity Edition doesn't let us to generate the personal-access-token any more. Could you let us know some where we can get the token in the Comminity Edition?Thanks.

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echiro
by New Contributor II
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cluster administrator

Is individual cluster more cost effective or shared group cluster?

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rangu
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This is very generic, it depends upon use case. If you have a bunch of users trying to read data from catalogs, and perform data analysis or analytics creating a common cluster will be more cost effective and provided better performance. Also, largel...

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JKR
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How to assign user group for email notification in databricks Alerts

How can I assign a azure databricks user group to an alert for notification?Current scenario is whenever we need to add a user for alert email notification we are manually adding that user email address to each we setup (more than 100) which is very ...

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rangu
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One option is to handle the logic inside the python notebook to trigger alerts using emali and smtp lib which accepts databricks local groups and AD groups that are synched.

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