🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! October 24 – 30, 2025

[Sujitha]

It’s been an exciting week across the Databricks Community — with new events, product announcements, and plenty of insightful technical discussions. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s been happening 👇

💬 Top Contributors of the Week

Kudos to our most active members for helping peers, sharing insights, and keeping the discussions vibrant!

• @szymon_dybczak
• @nayan_wylde
• @ManojkMohan
• @BS_THE_ANALYST
• @Hubert-Dudek

🎉 Highlights from the Community

• Regional Events:

  • Portland Data + AI Meetup — Holiday Event
  • Databricks Pittsburgh User Group — November 12
  • Databricks Pune User Group Meetup — November 15 at EPAM Systems
  • Databricks DevConnect | Washington D.C.
  • New: Databricks Interactive Architecture Design Workshops

• Product Announcements:

  • Databricks Data Intelligence Platform Cheat Sheet
  • Backfill Runs in Lakeflow Jobs for Higher Quality Downstream Data
  • Find Sensitive Data at Scale with Data Classification in Unity Catalog
  • Solution Accelerator #6 – Adverse Drug Event Detection

• New Technical Blogs:

  • Tutorial: Using Databricks Apps as a Lambda with Zerobus to write to Delta
  • Container Service: Zerobus-Station
  • Tutorial: Streamline Data Ingestion with Zerobus Ingest: RabbitMQ to the Lakehouse
  • Zerobus Ingest in Action: How to Stream Event Data Directly into Your Lakehouse

• Articles & Best Practices:

  • Benchmarking: Free Edition
  • Best Practices for Structuring Databricks Workspaces for CI/CD and ML Workflows

• Hot Discussions:

  • Agentic AI Workload Analyzer
  • Tips for Streamlining Spark Job Development and Debugging in Databricks
  • When to Use (and When Not to Use) Liquid Clustering
  • Migrating from on-premises HDFS to Unity Catalog

🧩 Top Resolved Posts

Here are some of the key community questions that found solutions this week:

• Intermittent 400 Error with Power BI Desktop - ODBC Connection to SQL Warehouse
• Spark JDBC Write Fails for Record Not Present - PK error
• Pass parameters between jobs
• Notebook Session Has Crashed
• Can a Databricks Workspace be renamed after creation?

💡 Trending Troubleshooting Topics

• [NUMERIC_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE.WITHOUT_SUGGESTION] rounding error
• Quota limit exhausted during SQL Server Connector ingestion
• SQL Stored Procedures – Notebook CREATE query
• Data ingestion from APIs (Shopify, Meta Ads, Google Ads, etc.)
• Delta Share visibility issues

Thanks to everyone who contributed, shared knowledge, or joined an event this week!
Keep exploring, keep sharing, and stay tuned for more updates from the Databricks Community. 🚀

[szymon_dybczak]

Thank you @Sujitha ! Kudos to our members for their contribution 🙂

[BS_THE_ANALYST]

@szymon_dybczak beat me to it 🤣👆. Thanks @Sujitha 🙏.

We're getting closer to Christmas 👀🎄 ..

All the best,
BS