🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! November 28 – December 04, 2025

[Advika]

A bright and buzzing start to December in the Databricks Community! ❄️🔥
Even as the year winds down, the conversations here only get sharper – packed with smart solutions, solid wins, and a flow of ideas that kept the community glowing.
Here’s everything that sparked the Community this week 👇

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💪 Standout Contributors

Huge thanks to all the minds who powered this week’s discussions – and great to see some of our contributors jumping back into the game! 🌟😎

@Hubert-Dudek  |  @Raman_Unifeye  |  @szymon_dybczak   |  @Coffee77   |  @bianca_unifeye

+ Top Brickster contributors:

@Louis_Frolio   |  @iyashk-DB 

Note: Names are listed in no particular order.

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🤝  Community Connect: Meetup & Talk

• Lakehouse, Lagers & Legends — Bangalore Meetup | December 13
• Recording! BrickTalks: Vibe Coding Databricks Apps in Replit

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📌  Technical Blogs

• Driving Revenue with Data: How Vehicle Service Notes Unlock Upsell Opportunities
• How to perform Semantic Search in Databricks Lakebase

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📰  Community Articles

• Why Your Delta Lake MERGE Takes Forever (And How to Fix It)
• Distributed ML on Databricks Serverless
• The Medallion Architecture: Why Data Layers Matter for Modern Organisations
• Your Coworkers Don't Get Databricks? Here's How to Fix That.
• A Governance-First Unified Namespace:Why Manufacturers Need Unity Catalog to Scale Industry 4.0 Data
• Spark Jobs View on a serverless cluster!! Naah.....

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🎄  Advent Calendar Spotlight - kickstarted by @Hubert-Dudek 

• Databricks Advent Calendar 2025
• Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #3
• Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #4

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🔍  What the Community Talked About

      Highlights from the Discussions👇

• Create external table using iceberg not working
• How to Optimize Data Pipeline Development on Databricks for Large-Scale Workloads?
• UC volumes not useable in Apps?
• Issue with ai_parse_document Not Extracting Text from Images in PDF
• ONLY PNG format is available for databricks dashboard table download
• Custom MCP deployment

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✅  Top Resolved Posts

    December started with clarity! These threads got wrapped up with SOLUTIONS👇

• remote_query() is not working
• Best practices for the meta data driven ETL framework
• Databricks Free-Edition - Hive_Metastore
• Establishing a Connection between ADLS Gen2, Databricks and ADF In Microsoft Azure
• How to restrict the values permitted in a job or task parameter?

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Huge thanks to all the voices who stepped in this week – your solutions, ideas, and conversations brought real energy into the Community. You’ve set a brilliant tone for December, and here’s to even more bright moments ahead! ✨🔥