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chethankumar
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Resolved! How to add existing recipient to existing delta share

I created a recipient in the Databricks console and also set up a Delta Share. Now, I’d like to link this existing recipient to the Delta Share. Is there a way to accomplish this using Terraform?

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chethankumar
New Contributor III
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Hi @Naïm Thanks for your response. It seems your answer is helping me, but I'm facing another issue. The owner of my recipient is a group, not an individual user. I'm running this Terraform script using a service principal that is a member of that gr...

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noorbasha534
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Resolved! Control plane set-up

Dear all,In this video from Databricks, Azure Databricks Security Best Practices - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1X8ydIR_Bc&t=623sduring this duration in the video 13.25 - 14.35the presenter talks about benefits of private endpoints. He makes the ...

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parthSundarka
Databricks Employee
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Hi @noorbasha534, Does this control plane then contains management services for several customers? - Yes, Control Plane has management services that are used across customers in the region.  Due to which the presenter says traffic can be isolated fro...

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Aria
by New Contributor III
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policy_id in databricks asset bundle workflow

We are using databricks asset bundle for code deployment and biggest issue I am facing is that policy_id is different in each environment.I tried with environment variable sin azure devops and also with declaring the variables in databricks.yaml and ...

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maikl
Databricks Partner
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Solved by the lookup function https://docs.databricks.com/en/dev-tools/bundles/variables.html#retrieve-an-objects-id-value

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staskh
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Is it possible to disable file download in Volumes interface?

Workspace security administration panel offers to disable downloads in notebook folders and workspaces. However, it seems that even if all those downloads are disabled, the "Volumes" panel of Unity Catalog still offers a file download button. Is it p...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @staskh ,Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to disable it via UI currently. But volumes are governed by UC permission, so maybe you can try to set permission to read/write to approved group of users and take permission of users who should...

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Useit
by New Contributor
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Issues with Delta Sharing API when using Service Principal Token

Hello,I am currently working with the Delta Sharing API and have encountered an issue when using a Service Principal token for authentication. The API call returns the following error:[CANNOT_INFER_EMPTY_SCHEMA] Can not infer schema from empty datase...

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Mounika_Tarigop
Databricks Employee
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Please find the response below:  1) The Delta Sharing API supports both personal access tokens and service principal tokens for authentication. 2) Service principals need to be granted specific roles and permissions to access data. This includes assi...

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hellobuddy
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Mounika_Tarigop
Databricks Employee
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The below documentation shows how to install libraries in a cluster.   https://docs.databricks.com/en/libraries/cluster-libraries.html#install-a-library-on-a-cluster

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manojpatil04
by Databricks Partner
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GCP Databricks GKE cluster with 4 nodes

I am working on setting up GCP Databricks and successfully created first GCP-Databricks workspace, but what I observed is it is incurring additional charges even i am using 14days free trail. It is GKE cluster with 4 nodes which are spin up as part o...

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manojpatil04
Databricks Partner
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Thank you @Louis_Frolio,Just want to dig more into this as is there any way to reduce this nodes using CLI or creating customer managed network.

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karen_c
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Databricks All-purpose compute Pricing

Hello, I am now struggling how to calculate the cost of my job cluster.My configuration is as below:If I have to run the above cluster 18 hours per day, in Standard Tier and East Asia Region, how much will be the pricing of the cluster?Any help provi...

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Takuya-Omi
Valued Contributor III
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@karen_c Let me make a small correction.It seems that you have checked the option for Spot Instances, which should make the cost slightly lower. Please refer to the far-right column of the attached pricing table for more details.Additionally, you hav...

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AlbertWang
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Resolved! Azure Databricks Unity Catalog - Cannot access Managed Volume in notebook

The problemAfter setting up Unity Catalog and a managed Volume, I can upload/download files to/from the volume, on Databricks Workspace UI.However, I cannot access the volume from notebook. I created an All-purpose compute, and run dbutils.fs.ls("/Vo...

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AlbertWang
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I found the reason and a solution, but I feel this is a bug. And I wonder what is the best practice.When I enable the ADSL Gen2's Public network access from all networks as shown below, I can access the volume from a notebook.However, if I enable the...

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raghu2
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Access to system.billing.usage tables

I have Account, Marketplace, Billing Admin roles. I have visibility to system.billing.list_prices table only.How do I get access to system.billing.usage tables? Databricks instance is on AWS.Thanks

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raghu2
Databricks Partner
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Hi @Alberto_Umana, Thanks for your response. I needed Metastore Admin permissions too. In account console, I changed the Metastore Admin to be a group, became a part of the group. With this other tables were visible. With this permission using the gr...

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JissMathew
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Best Practices for Daily Source-to-Bronze Data Ingestion in Databricks

How can we effectively manage source-to-bronze data ingestion from a project perspective, particularly when considering daily scheduling strategies using either Auto Loader or Serverless Warehouse COPY INTO commands?

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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No, it is not a strict requirement. You can have a single node job cluster run the job if the job is small.

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BryanC
by New Contributor II
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Any Databricks system tables contain info of the saved/pre-defined queries

How can I find the saved/pre-defined queries in Databricks system tables?system.query.history seems NOT having the info, like query-id or query-name

Administration & Architecture
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System Tables
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tapash-db
Databricks Employee
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Hi Bryan, Databricks system tables do not store saved queries. Query history table captures the query execution details, including: Statement IDExecution statusUser who ran the queryStatement text (if not encrypted)Statement typeExecution durationRes...

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JissMathew
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Resolved! Seeking Practical Example for Structured Streaming with Delta Tables in Medallion Architecture

Hi everyone,I’m working on implementing Structured Streaming in Databricks to capture Change Data Capture (CDC) as part of a Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers). While Microsoft’s documentation provides a theoretical approach, I’...

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @JissMathew ,Do you have access to databricks academy? I believe in their data engineering track there's pleny of example notebooks.Or you can try dbdemos. For example, here you can find demo notebook for autoloaderDatabricks Autoloader (cloudfile...

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dsmoore
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Multiple volumes from same external location?

Hey all,Do you know if it's possible to create multiple volumes referencing the same s3 bucket from the same external location?For example, if I have two workspaces (test and prod) testing different versions of pipeline code but with static data I'd ...

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ozaaditya
Databricks Partner
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Yes, it is a limitation, and it is not possible to create multiple volumes referencing the same S3 bucket. This restriction ensures consistency and prevents conflicts when accessing the same data source.Possible Solution:Use subdirectories within the...

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DominikBraun
by New Contributor II
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Environment Notification / Message

Is it somehow possible to create a message or alerting for specific Databricks environments to make people more aware that they are using e.g. a PROD environment?It can be reflected in the environment name like "dev" or "prod", yes. But it would be n...

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Walter_C
Databricks Employee
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Seems that for Azure the process is a little bit different you might follow steps in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/resources/ideas 

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