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pradeep_singh
by Contributor III
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Turning Databricks into an AI pair‑programmer with Claude‑powered coding agents

Databricks + Claude Code This guide walks through a practical, end‑to‑end setup: installing Claude Code, wiring it to Anthropic models served from Databricks, and configuring authentication so everything “just works” from your terminal and editor. Yo...

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hasnat_unifeye
Databricks Partner
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I have yet to use Claude within Databricks - Thanks for this @pradeep_singh 

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balajij8
by Contributor III
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Hive (Dark) Metastore —  Azure Databricks Standard Tier Retirement is a great move

Retirement is planned for Azure in Oct 2026. Completed in other clouds in Oct 2025Data residing in the Hive Metastore is opaque, suffers from low governance and is siloed in legacy technical constructs. The Hive Metastore (HMS) was a technology revol...

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JstelaBR
by Databricks Partner
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You can use built-in AI functions directly in Databricks SQL

Databricks provides built-in AI functions that can be used directly in SQL or notebooks, without managing models or infrastructure.Example:SELECT ticket_id, ai_generate( 'Summarize this support ticket:\n{{text}}', 'databricks-dbrx-instruct', descript...

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mark_ott
by Databricks Employee
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How can I tell my Dashboard visualizations aren't stale?

With AI/BI Dashboards, a best practice is for the creator/owner to 'Schedule' the Dashboard to rerun the underlying datasets when changes have occurred. This ensures the Visualizations are rendered with the freshest data.  But users still will questi...

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Michael_Appiah
Databricks Partner
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@mark_ott That is a nice idea and quite useful. Quick question: how did you define 'stale' data in your case? So what is the threshold at which your 'conditional equation' color codes the date red? did you somehow link that to the refresh schedule? 

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Brahmareddy
by Esteemed Contributor II
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Data + AI Is Not the Future at Databricks. It’s the Present.

One thing becomes very clear when you spend time in the Databricks community: AI is no longer an experiment. It is already part of how real teams build, ship, and operate data systems at scale.For a long time, many organizations treated data engineer...

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Brahmareddy
Esteemed Contributor II
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Thanks @Louis_Frolio for your kind words. Happy to contribute here.

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devipriya
by New Contributor III
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Getting Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate (and What I Learned)

I just earned my Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate Certification, and in this post, I’m sharing the key tips, resources, and personal insights that helped me succeed. My certiticate from DatabricksNavigation:PreludeAbout the certR...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Hey @devipriya , thanks for sharing your notes on how you found success with the certification(s). Appreciate you taking the time to pass along what worked for you. Cheers, Louis

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Raman_Unifeye
by Honored Contributor III
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Change default workspace access to Consumer access

When Databricks One was launched, the default behaviour of the system-managed users group was a major issue. Since every new user is automatically added to users group, and that group traditionally came with "Workspace Access" entitlements, admins ha...

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Raman_Unifeye
Honored Contributor III
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Thanks @Advika. it was certainly a big win for my env.

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Coffee77
by Honored Contributor II
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Very short video on tip about Collect() method!!!

Here is a very short video on how to use collect() method with caution as it could overwhelm the cluster in some big data scenarios!!!! Now only in Spanish but I guess youtube will do the trick to translate into very correct English xDD

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Sourabh_13
by New Contributor III
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A Governance-First Unified Namespace:Why Manufacturers Need Unity Catalog to Scale Industry 4.0 Data

The Industrial Data ChallengeManufacturing enterprises today operate with a fundamental paradox: they're drowning in data yet starving for insights. A typical plant generates terabytes of information daily across dozens of systems—from shop floor PLC...

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rach
Databricks Partner
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Informative

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BijuThottathil
by New Contributor III
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Great Expectations with Fabric and Databricks-Building Bulletproof Data Pipelines

In this article, I’ll walk you through transforming a basic PySpark notebook into a production-ready data pipeline with comprehensive quality checks using Great Expectations patterns in Microsoft Fabric and Databricks. We’ll start simple and progress...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Dashboards deployment

It is finally possible to deploy dashboards using DABS and change the catalog and schema. It is solving the biggest problem with bringing the dashboard to production. New parameters for the dashboard resource were added: dataset_catalog and dataset...

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Raman_Unifeye
Honored Contributor III
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@Hubert-Dudek - This was really a much-awaited feature. Eventually DAB must cover all developed assets which requires promotion to higher environment to cover the CICD seamlessly. 

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AbhaySingh
by Databricks Employee
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SQL Scripting - Procedural Logic in Databricks SQL (Without Leaving SQL)

We've all been there. You need to loop through a list of tables, apply some transformation, handle a few edge cases, and maybe catch an error or two. In most data platforms, that means switching to Python or Scala—even if 90% of your logic is just SQ...

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AbhaySingh
Databricks Employee
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Correction: Preview is available on Databricks Runtime 16.3 and above.

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Akshat-Vijay
by Databricks Partner
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Databricks Serverless Compute: Performance, Cost, and Time-to-Value Explained

As data platforms mature, the focus is no longer just scalability—it is about speed, simplicity, and cost efficiency. Engineering teams want to deliver insights faster without managing infrastructure, while organizations want predictable costs and st...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Window Functions in Metrics Views

The latest update for the first week of 2026 is the addition of window functions in Metrics View. In enterprises, there are always measures like cumulative sales or rolling forecast, so it is really important that we can use window functions in busin...

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Raman_Unifeye
Honored Contributor III
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@Hubert-Dudek - Thanks for sharing these bite-size updates as these get lost in many release-notes. Keep it up.

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Mix Shell with Python

Assigning the result of a shell command directly to a Python variable. It is my most significant finding in magic commands and my favourite one so far. Read about 12 magic commands in my blogs: - https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-hidden-magic-...

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