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DavidRobinson
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Transition from SCIM to AIM

We're in the process of transitioning our Azure Databricks instance from SCIM-based provisioning to Automated Identity Management (AIM), now that AIM is generally available. Once enabled, AIM becomes the authoritative source for managing users, group...

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nayan_wylde
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@DavidRobinson Let me know how it goes. This is in my to-do list too as we are facing a lot of issues with SCIM like nested group sync and SPN syncs. One of the issue that I can think of is AIM respects nested groups from Entra, which SCIM didn’t. So...

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Elben
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Delta Sharing Egress Pipeline for Azure

We are currently investigating the options for implementing a multi tenancy solution where clients are separated but share data using delta sharing. Are there any way to track cost for reading data in Azure. It seems like Delta Sharing Egress Pipelin...

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Elben
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Thanks. I'm aware of the very neat features for analyzing cost in databricks, but we are also interested in monitoring the cost for the underlying storage and network. It seems that this is indeed possible in AWS using s3, but not supported in Azure....

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kebubs
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Resolved! Difference between AWS Marketplace and direct with Databricks

Hi all,Wanted to check the difference between direct purchase from Databricks and through AWS Marketplace, and the difference in deployment of direct purchase and AWS Marketplace. I understand that from AWS Marketplace will have a auto-deployment whe...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @kebubs ,Maybe you will find below thread as useful. According to databricks employee the main difference will be how billing is handled:"Direct Subscription: If you subscribe directly through Databricks, you will manage billing through the Databr...

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Kaz1
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Can't post to microsoft teams workflow from databricks notebook

When trying to post to a microsoft teams webhook, from a databricks notebook, using compute with DBR 12.2 I receive the following error:SSL error: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='prod-104.westeurope.logic.azure.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with ur...

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Isi
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Hello @Kaz1 It’s very likely that the issue is related to where the HTTPS request originates — whether it’s coming from the Databricks control plane or your data plane (your own AWS VPC).When you run a local script or call the Teams webhook from a cl...

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m2chrisp
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Resolved! Setting catalog isolation mode and workspace bindings within a notebook using Python SDK

Hi,I have a set of notebooks which configure new catalogs, set permissions, create default schemas, attach Azure Storage accounts as external volumes, create Git Folders and set current branches, etc.All this works just fine.One thing I'm trying to a...

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mark_ott
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The error occurs because the Databricks Python SDK (databricks-sdk) and the authentication method within an Azure Databricks notebook use a special “db-internal” token for user-based notebook execution, which does not have permission to perform some ...

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IoanT
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Resolved! databricks bundle validate: Recommendation: permissions section should explicitly include the curren

Starting from 10/07/2025 my validation bundle step from databricks bundle deploy fail with the folowing message:2025-07-11T07:07:18.5175554Z Recommendation: permissions section should explicitly include the current deployment identity '***' or one of...

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mark_ott
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The error message in your Databricks bundle deploy validation step:   text Recommendation: permissions section should explicitly include the current deployment identity '***' or one of its groups If it is not included, CAN_MANAGE permissions are...

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Luke_Kociuba
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Resolved! dbt+Databrics

Hi!I will use dbt + Databrics in my new project.I'm runing dbt training. Have Databrics free/trial account so far. Want to connect, link dbt with Databbrics and create data warehouse from below data setsjaffle_shop_customers.csvjaffle_shop_orders.csv...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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Great solution @szymon_dybczak .I don't know too much about DBT yet. Is there much difference between connecting/interacting with DBT cloud vs DBT core?All the best,BS

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HitMah
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Transitioning Approach for Evolving EDW

As EDW will continue to evolve with new data and business logic during the multi-phased migration, what architectural strategies and design patterns can minimize rework when migrating from an evolving Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to Databricks? I ...

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-werners-
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There is no single approach. It depends on your organization.First you have the 'impact-axis' which is lean and mean vs big bang.Next you also have bottom-up (first fix bronze and work upwards) or top-down (focus on gold and read data from your legac...

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danielrodri
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Resolved! Payment receipts of Databricks payments

Hello experts,I am trying to get receipts for the monthly payments done to Databricks. I need them for the financial department of the organization I am working for. The only billing information I get access to is the usage dashboards and the tables ...

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DatabricksEddy
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Hello everyone!I'd like to know how I can resolve a payment issue with Databricks?My credit card is registered to be charged automatically, but it hasn't been charged, as I received a message from Databricks asking me to make the payment, etc.Can any...

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Awoke101
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Resolved! Ray cannot detect GPU on the cluster

I am trying to run ray on databricks for chunking and embedding tasks. The cluster I’m using is:g4dn.xlarge1-4 workers with 4-16 cores1 GPU and 16GB memoryI have set spark.task.resource.gpu.amount to 0.5 currently.This is how I have setup my ray clus...

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Krishna_S
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I have replicated all your steps and created the ray cluster exactly as you have done. Also, I have set: spark.conf.set("spark.task.resource.gpu.amount", "0.5") And I see a warning that shows that I don't allocate any GPU for Spark (as 1), even tho...

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noorbasha534
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Oauth Token federation

Dear allHas anyone tried oauth token federation for authentication with Databricks REST APIs?appreciate if there is a re-usable code snippet to achieve the same.

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nayan_wylde
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@noorbasha534  Here is a sample python code I use for getting oauth token from Azure Active Directory and then pass the token in databricks API. Prerequisite is the SPN needs to be a admin in the workspace.import requests # Azure AD credentials tena...

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ekmazars
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Resolved! SQLSTATE HY000 after upgrading from Databricks 15.4 to 16.4

After upgrading from Databricks 15.4 to 16.4, without changing our Python code, we suddenly get SQL Timeouts, see below.Is there some new timeout default, that we don't know about, that we need to increase with the new version? After a quick search I...

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mark_ott
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After upgrading to Databricks 16.4, there is a notable change in SQL timeout behavior. The default timeout for SQL statements and objects like materialized views and streaming tables is now set to two days (172,800 seconds). This system-wide default ...

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noorbasha534
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View Refresh Frequency

Dear allwe have around 5000+ finished data products (aka views) in several schemas of unity catalog. One question that comes from business users frequently is - how frequently these get refreshed?for that the answer is not simpler as the underlying t...

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saurabh18cs
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Hi @noorbasha534 just a pseudocode:for view in all_views:lineage = get_lineage(view) # Use Unity Catalog APIbase_tables = extract_base_tables(lineage)refresh_times = []for table in base_tables:job = find_job_refreshing_table(table) # Custom logic/met...

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faaiqsaheed12
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Resolved! Unable to view Manage Account Option in Databricks UI

Hi All, I want to remove Unity Catalog from Admin Console so that I need to navigate to manage account option but the option is not available in my Databricks workspace. Please help me to sort this issue by removing Unity Catalog.

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Amit_Dass
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Brilliant! I followed the above and its works seamlessly. 

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robert-moyai
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Databricks OAuth: User-based OAuth (U2M) Databricks Connect in Apps

I'm looking to use a databricks session in a Databricks app. The databricks session should be able to use user-based oauth (U2M) to ensure the app has same privileges as the authenticated user using the app. Databricks apps have the ability to use th...

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robert-moyai
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Thanks for you response and the links. But the documentation doesn't explicitly explain why the spark connect has been placed out of scope and what app builders should use to implement proper data governance using on behave of user permissions.

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