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ismaelhenzel
by Valued Contributor
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Resolved! Terraform folder structure and states

Hi everyone, I have a few questions regarding Terraform folder structure and state management for Databricks, and I'd love to get your opinions.For context, our Databricks environment is already deployed and Unity Catalog is configured. The Terraform...

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @ismaelhenzel, In terms of your first question, Terraform automatically loads all *.tf files in the same directory, so it’s common practice to organise them by concern. For example,   envs/ prod/ backend.tf # remote state config ...

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wonoh90
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Resolved! Accidentally Removed myself as account admin

Dear Support Team, I am currently on a 14-day free trial of the Premium Edition and have accidentally removed myself as the account administrator. As I was the only admin, I am now locked out and unable to log in to the account. Could you please help...

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @wonoh90 Thanks for reaching out and sorry you’re running into this. Since this involves restoring admin access at the account level, it’s not something the community can fix directly. You’ll need to open a support ticket with Databricks so the su...

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LokeshChikuru
by Databricks Partner
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Resolved! Best practice:Using Databricks managed storage vs customer‑owned ADLS for enterprise production data

We are currently setting up Azure Databricks for enterprise analytics and wanted to validate our storage architecture against Databricks best practices.Today, we are ingesting data directly from external enterprise sources (Oracle DB, SQL Server, etc...

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LokeshChikuru
Databricks Partner
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@emma_s Thanks for the update and appreciate the immediate response.

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saiV06
by New Contributor III
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Lakehouse Federation - Unable to connect to Snowflake using "PEM Private Key"

Hi,I'm currently using Lakehouse Federation feature on databricks to run queries against Snowflake datawarehouse. Today I'm using a service credential to establish the connection (user id & pwd), but I have to change it to use private key. I tried us...

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FederatedQuery
LakehouseFederation
SnowflakeConnection
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pradeep_singh
Honored Contributor III
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Can you check if you have encrypted your keys . The Snowflake JDBC driver does not support authentication with encrypted private keys.  https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/query-federation/snowflake-pem#limitationsTry generating the key with no encryp...

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learti
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Downgrade from Enterprise to Premium Plan

We upgraded to Enterprise to test something and we want now to switch back to Premium Plan. How can I achieve this. Am I forced to create a new account and delete this one?

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Lu_Wang_ENB_DBX
Databricks Employee
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No need to cancel your account. There is no self-service option to downgrade your account.  Please submit a support ticket and work with your Databricks account team to downgrade.

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vziog
by New Contributor III
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Databricks Default Catalog with House Icon

Hi everyone,I have a question regarding workspace catalogs in Databricks with Unity Catalog.In our setup, when a new workspace is created and automatically assigned to a Unity Catalog metastore (with automatic workspace catalog creation enabled), a c...

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SteveOstrowski
Databricks Employee
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Hi @vziog, I can see the earlier suggestion about using the kebab menu Rename didn't fully solve the problem. There are actually a few distinct concepts at play here, and understanding the difference is the key. WHAT IS THE WORKSPACE CATALOG (HOUSE I...

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PradeepPrabha
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Any documentation mentioning connectivity from Azure SQL database connectivity to Azure Databricks

Any documentation available to connect from the Azure SQL database to Azure Databricks SQL workspace. We created a SQL warehouse personal access token for a user in a different team who can connect from his on-prem SQL DB to Databricks using the conn...

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PradeepPrabha
New Contributor III
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Thank you for the detailed answer

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PradeepPrabha
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Resolved! Any recommended way for a different app to start their dependent job based on Databricks job?

How can we configure a job in a different Azure application to be triggered after the completion of an Azure Databricks job? Once the Databricks job is successful, the job in the third-party application hosted in Azure should start. I attempted to us...

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PradeepPrabha
New Contributor III
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Thank you.  Thank you for the detailed answer!I have tested the Azure function way and also using an Azure runbook as well. Both works fine.Also tested the option of adding as the final task and a condition to "if all other notebooks" successful, the...

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bradleyjamrozik
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Resolved! databricks OAuth is not supported for this host

I'm trying to deploy using Databricks Asset Bundles via an Azure DevOps pipeline. I keep getting this error when trying to use oauth:Error: default auth: oauth-m2m: oidc: databricks OAuth is not supported for this host. Config: host=https://<workspac...

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saadansari-db
Databricks Employee
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Hi @bradleyjamrozik, thank you for posting your question. You will need to use ARM_ variables to make it work Specifically ARM_CLIENT_ID ARM_TENANT_ID ARM_CLIENT_SECRET https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dev-tools/auth#environment-3 f...

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sminamioka
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Databricks kicking me out every 2 minutes

 After the session expire every 2 minutes as show below, I can't log in afterwards as shown further below. What the heck is this? Then I have to wait the platform own will to allow me to log in many minutes later.

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CynAuad
New Contributor III
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I can definitely tell it's improved—it's been 30 minutes and it hasn't logged me out yet.Thank you so much!

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Sanjeeb2024
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Need Help - System tables that contains all databricks users, service principal details !!

Hi all - I am trying to create a dashabord where I need to list down all users and service principals along with groups and understand their databricks usages. Is there any table available in Databricks that contains user, service principal details. ...

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Akash_Nimbalkar
Databricks Partner
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Hi Sanjeeb,Please let me know what worked for you.

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cybertheory
by New Contributor
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Custom MCP for Genie via Apps

I wanted to create a custom MCP to help Genie generate some code - its a simple API callI had everything set up - the app, the secrets, everything was deployedBut Genie won't connect, and when I try to add "On Behalf of User Authorization" roles it d...

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Lu_Wang_ENB_DBX
Databricks Employee
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Check these: First, make sure you're adding the authorization roles through the App's settings in the workspace where Genie will actually use it, not just where you developed it. The roles need to be set in the target workspace. Second, try refreshin...

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ScottDunk
by New Contributor
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OJDBC8 stoped working on LTS 17.3

Hi, we upgraded our clusters to LTS 17.3 as we needed some functionality from that release and our OJDBC8 drivers have stopped working.  Downgraded back to LTS 14 and its all fine again.What are the latest OJDBC drivers that are compatible with LTS 1...

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @ScottDunk, Looking at the release notes for LTS 14 and LTS 17.3, it appears to be a compatibility issue... LTS 14:LTS 17.3: As you can see from the images above, Databricks 17.3 LTS upgrades the cluster JVM to Java 17. Oracle’s own compatibility ...

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satycse06
by New Contributor
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Resolved! DLT pipeline production deployment with AWS

Hi,We are currently working with pyspark where we are doing the ETL as well as data quality check. We are converting our code in to the wheel package to go in to the prod and manage the version for better stability.We are running  Databricks with AWS...

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @satycse06, Have you considered Declarative Automation Bundles (Previously called Databricks Asset bunddles) for this? This is exactly the type of problem it solves. You can still keep your DLT code and a databricks.yml bundle file in Azure DevOps...

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abhijit007
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Resolved! Security & Compliance understanding on LLM Usage in Databricks Genie and Agentbricks

Hi everyone,With the increasing focus on security and compliance for AI Agents and LLMs, I wanted to get some clarity on a couple of points related to Databricks Genie and Agentbricks.Could someone help provide detailed information on the following, ...

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Ashwin_DSA
Databricks Employee
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Hi @abhijit007, Please take a look at these pages. They answer your queries in detail for Genie. https://docs.databricks.com/genie - Covers architecture and how it works. Also covers security.  https://docs.databricks.com/databricks-ai/databricks-ai-...

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