The Weekly Digest • March 23 – 29
Community Pulse
Everything you need to know from the community this week, all in one place. 📌👀
🏅 Spotlight Contributors
Bringing clarity, curiosity, and confidence to the threads. Meet this week's top voices:
+ Top Brickster contributors:
Note: Names are listed in no particular order.
📖 Top Reads This Week
- It's time to treat AI as a peer, not a tool. What if your AI already knew Databricks?
- Turning Lakehouse into Brainhouse via Knowledge Graphs
- Create an MCP for Azure DevOps To Use With Genie Code
- Solving Multi-Dimension Analytics in Databricks Dashboards with Views and Metric Views
- How to actually get job_id and run_id in a Databricks Python wheel task (Avoid Hallucinations)
- Databricks Multi-Table Transactions - Part 2
- 5X-Large
- Practical observations on working with Databricks Genie Code
- Databricks SQL Runtime 18.0 and above: ATOMIC Compound Statement
- Databricks Assistant is now Genie Code
- Get job and other metadata from notebook
- Databricks Lakewatch: Redefining Security for the Agentic Era
- Databricks AI/BI Genie Space: Unlocking Generative AI on Delta Tables for Smarter Analytics
- Access token from entry_point VS SDK built-in authentication
- DABS and git branchin
Deep dives, tutorials, and technical insights from the community:
- SDP “How-To” Series. Part 2: How to Master Streaming Tables and Materialized Views
- Auto Loader with File Events - Simplified File Discovery at Scale
- Databricks Platform Observability AI BI Dashboard
- Train and Deploy YOLO Vision Model on Databricks AI Runtime (AIR)
- Lakebase as the Operational Data Store: Bringing Back the Tactical Data Layer
- [PARTNER BLOG] Unifying Enterprise Data with Lakehouse Federation
The conversations sparking the most debate and collaboration right now:
- OrderBy is not sorting the results
- Service Principal access notebooks created under /Workspace/Users
- Issue while handling Deletes and Inserts in Structured Streaming
- What helped you the most when you were getting started with Databricks?
- Who All Are Attending Data + AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco?
- Is Address Line 4 the place where data goes to die?
🎯 From Question to Clarity
Some of the posts successfully resolved this week:
- Checkpoint Location Error
- Column Tags Not Accessible in Genie (Azure Databricks)
- Service Principal access notebooks created under /Workspace/Users
- How to reliably get the timestamp of the last write/delete activity on a unity catalog table
- Intermittent OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error accessing workspace files from job
🤝 Over to You
This briefing is powered by exactly one thing: YOU.
Whether you’re writing deep-dive tutorials, solving tricky errors, or just reading along, thank you for shaping the Community. Catch you next week! ✌️
