🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! January 19 – 25, 2026

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💥 Ideas. Questions. Wins.

The community was buzzing with insights and hands-on learning – here’s what stood out this week.👇

🏅 This Week’s Contributors

    Shoutout to members who kept the discussions flowing – plus a new face joining the spotlight this week:

     @pradeep_singh  |  @Raman_Unifeye  |  @szymon_dybczak 

     + Top Brickster contributors:

     @MoJaMa   |  @Louis_Frolio   |   @iyashk-DB 

Note: Names are listed in no particular order.

📖  Knowledge Drops

     From hands-on tips to deep insights – resources that sparked learning:

Community Articles	MVP Articles	Technical Blog
Change default workspace access to Consumer access The End of an Era - Azure Databricks is Retiring the Standard Tier How can I tell my Dashboard visualizations aren't stale? Data + AI Is Not the Future at Databricks. It’s the Present. The Last Mile of Data Intelligence - Databricks Lakebase Very short video on tip about Collect() method!!!	Research PDF Report For Pivot Lovers 95% failure rate Runtime 18 GA Lakebase experience Row Filter Why AI projects fail App Config	Advancing your agentic AI with MCP - A travel planning use-case on Databricks

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💬 Discussions in the Spotlight

     Threads that shared insights, practical tips, and valuable takeaways:

• How to guarantee “always-warm” serverless compute for low-latency Jobs workloads?
• How to get read/write bytes per table using Databricks system tables?
• How to incrementally backup system.information_schema.table_privileges (no streaming, no unique keys
• Declarative Pipeline error: Name 'kdf' is not defined. Did you mean: 'sdf'
• CSV Ingestion using Autoloader with single variant column

📢 Announcements & Events

     Recent announcements and events you should know about:

• Solution Accelerator Series | LLMs for Customer Service and Support
• Learning Series | Generative AI Application Deployment and Monitoring
• CUSTOMER STORY - How Databricks powered Snappt’s real-time fraud and ROI insights
• End of Year Documentation Update - Part 2
• Zerobus Ingest: From Lakehouse to Insights Now – Event 

🎯 Threads That Reached Resolution

     From Questions to Answers – This Week’s Resolved Posts:

• Anchor links in notebook markdown
• How to change delta table to managed iceberg table by writing it metadata & using same parquet data
• DELTA_FEATURES_REQUIRE_MANUAL_ENABLEMENT DLT Streaming Table as Variant
• Population stability index (PSI) calculation in Lakehouse monitor
• Question on Ingestion Pipelines

That’s a wrap for this week 🚀.
Thanks for keeping the conversations sharp – see you soon with more community highlights 👋 😀.