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Multi-fact Star Schema patterns in Databricks
If you have been brought up in the Microsoft stack, post MDX, you have most likely been taught the Kimball way of modelling your data: A Star SchemaIf you are coming from the Power BI world, you have most likely come across the term Semantic Models, ...
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Thanks you for the summary @KrisJohannesen. It's great to know what is possible, but it all still feels like a workaround. I really hope that Chao Cai's response means that we will real have multi-fact support in metric views.
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Metric Views with Power BI and Tabular Editor (Part 3 of 3)
This is part 3 of 3 in a series where I take you through working with Metric Views.Part 1: Introduction to Metric ViewsPart 2: Metric Views and the Databricks platform (AI/BI Dashboards, Genie, etc.)Part 3: Metric Views with Power BI and Tabular Edit...
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Finally someone touching this important topic - I see great interest in migrating semantic layer from power bi to databricks, but lack of true multi-fact support is a major blocker in my opinion and therefore I'm cooling down the enthusiasm ;-). @Kri...
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From 40 Minutes to 8 minutes: Why We Dropped MERGE in Our SAP BW to Databricks Gold Layer
Infra keeps getting faster, but the fix for a slow notebook is usually a config line, not a bigger cluster.One Spark Config, 32 Minutes Saved: Replacing MERGE with Dynamic Partition OverwriteBy @Phani_sannala , co-authored with @sridharplv Our gold n...
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I Took the Databricks Context Engineer Associate Beta Exam. Here Is How I Would Prepare.
The new Databricks Certified Context Engineer Associate beta exam is not a typical certification exam.I took it during Data + AI Summit 2026, and my first reaction was simple: this is a serious exam.I have completed seven Databricks certifications so...
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Learning Series | SQL Programming and Procedural Logic
Databricks Academy offers the free SQL Programming and Procedural Logic course to help data warehousing practitioners build more modular and maintainable SQL workflows on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. It covers reusable SQL constructs, p...
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Change Data Feed on Materialized Views Why I Think This Is More Than an Incremental Processing
One interesting way to look at CDF on Materialized Views is the difference between source-level change and business-level change.CDC might tell us that five banking transactions changed. But after those transactions pass through our transformations,...
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Good point, @AmitDECopilot that gap between "row changed" and "value actually changed enough to matter" is where most CDC setups trip up. We hit the same thing on a Gold-layer project: CDF told us data moved, but teams really wanted to know "did the...
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New Dashboard for monitoring Genie Usage and Costs
Sharing my new dashboard for tracking Genie usage and costs, any suggestions for improvements and features are welcome.The current version displays and aggregates Genie LLM costs, free & billable DBU consumptions, and code interactions per user on a ...
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New functionality was added to the dashboard to account for the Genie Agents and Genie One promotion:Filters available across all pages:Workspace ID: Scope to one or more workspace(s)Date Range: Restrict the time window for daily and monthly chartsGe...
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Getting on-premises SQL Server data into Databricks: the networking is the hard part
Most of the guidance on getting SQL Server data into Databricks quietly assumes the SQL Server is already in Azure. If it is, the managed connector story is easy. But on a lot of real projects the database is sitting on-premises, in a data centre tha...
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Monorepo vs Multi-repo for Databricks Asset Bundles: A Decision Framework
When teams scale their Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) adoption, one of the first infrastructure questions that comes up is: should we keep all our bundles in a single monorepo, or split them across dedicated repos per domain? Having run both models ...
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How to Optimize Your Content for GEO: Best Practices for Writing Discoverable Community Content
Help Your Knowledge Reach More People Every Technical Blog, Community Article, MVP article, or answer you share can help someone beyond the Databricks Community. Small improvements in how you write can make your content easier to discover through C...
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Thank you for sharing this practical guide, @Rishabh_Tiwari.I used these GEO best practices as the foundation for an open-source Agent Skill that helps writers apply the guidance while creating Databricks Community content.The skill can help users:• ...
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Demystifying Databricks Full Text Search: It’s Not Vector Search (And That’s Okay!)
Vector search is everywhere right now, but is it always the right tool for the job? Actually, noIf you need to find a specific Trace ID or error code buried in 100 million log rows, you don't want an AI model guessing what's "conceptually similar." Y...
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Resolved! Databricks Metric Views: Why Gold Tables Are No Longer the End of the Pipeline
In many data platforms, the problem is not that we do not have enough tables.Usually, we have too many.Bronze tables.Silver tables.Gold tables.Reporting views.Power BI calculations.Tableau logic.Excel extracts.Ad-hoc SQL.Notebook logic.After some tim...
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The problem you're describing with metric definitions living in five different places is exactly what pushed us to add a Views layer on top of Gold in a recent SAP to Databricks migration.We had three Tableau workbooks calculating vendor aging. One u...
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Solution Accelerator Series | Real-Time Bidding Optimization
In programmatic advertising, the value of an impression depends on whether an ad is viewed by a user. The Real-Time Bidding Optimization Solution Accelerator shows how to predict ad viewability and use those insights to optimize bidding strategies, m...
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Learning Series | AI/BI for Data Analysts
Databricks Academy offers the free AI/BI for Data Analysts course to help data analysts use AI/BI Dashboards and AI/BI Genie for business intelligence on the Databricks platform. It focuses on practical skills for designing dashboards, creating Genie...
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Hadoop to Databricks Migration - Mapping HDFS, Hive, and YARN
If you are early in a Hadoop to Databricks migration, the artifact worth building before any pilot is a function-by-function control map. For each capability the Hadoop estate currently provides, record three things: the control objective that must s...
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