🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! December 12 – 21, 2025

[Advika]

Learning doesn’t pause, and neither does the impact this Community continues to create!
Across threads and time zones, the knowledge kept moving. 🙌
Catch up on the highlights 👇

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💪  Voices Shaping the Week 

      Featuring the voices that brought clarity, insight, and perspective to the discussions 🔥🔊

       @Raman_Unifeye   |  @szymon_dybczak   |   @Hubert-Dudek   

     + Top Brickster contributors:

       @emma_s   |   @Louis_Frolio   |   @iyashk-DB 

Note: Names are listed in no particular order.

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📣  Announcements & Events

• Call for Presentations: Data + AI Summit 2026 is Open!
• Last Chance: Help Shape the 2026 Data + AI Summit | Win a Full Conference Pass
• PSA: Community Edition retires on January 1, 2026. Move to the Free Edition today to keep your work.
• Sparklefest - The UK Public Sector Hackathon

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🧠  From the Blog Desk

     📌  Technical Blogs

• [PARTNER BLOG] Beyond ADLS Limits: File Arrival Triggers for File Updates
• AI Newsletter Series (Part 1): Parsing Enterprise PDFs Into AI-Ready Data
• Fine-Grained Access Control in Delta Sharing: Dynamic Views vs Partition Filtering
• Integration Testing for Lakeflow Jobs with Pytest and Databricks Connect

     🔗  Community Articles

• From Learning to Enablement: My 2025 Databricks Journey
• Training That Scales: How Databricks Adoption Really Takes Hold
• Unity Catalog Lineage: Lineage That Just Works

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🎄  Advent Calendar Spotlight 
(kicked off by the unstoppable @Hubert-Dudek 😃)

      Day 12  ➤ Day 13  ➤ Day 14  ➤ Day 15  ➤ Day 16  ➤ Day 17  ➤ Day 18  ➤ Day 19  ➤ Day 20  ➤ Day 21 
      ... and counting.

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🔍  What the Community Explored Together

      Highlights from the Discussions👇

• Databricks partner journey for small firms
• Extract Snowflake data based on environment
• Read Array of Arrays of Objects JSON file using Spark
• AI/BI Dashboard embed issue in Databricks App
• Intermittent connectivity issues between Power BI and Databricks

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✅  Problems → Solved

      Top Resolved threads👇

• Accessing Knowledge Base from Databricks One
• Ingesting data from APIs
• Vector search index initialization very slow
• Issues while running SYNC SCHEMA (HIVE-6384)
• EXCEL_DATA_SOURCE_NOT_ENABLED Excel data source is not enabled in this cluster

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Every question you ask, every insight you share, every idea you spark – it all adds up.
You make the Community more than a space – you make it a living network of knowledge. 😎