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joseph_in_sf
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Turn PRDs into Databricks PySpark pipelines with Agentic AI using Docker, Ollama, and QWEN3:4b

I’ve seen many examples of AI that can help you code individual routines and such, mostly junior-level coding help. The goal of this POC is to give the AI a general PRD containing coding examples and have it generate a Databricks pipeline from such.R...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 improvements

Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 brings parameter markers everywhere #databricks Latest updates: read: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-january-2025-432c6231d8b1 watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLjoTkceKQI

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Abhilash_P
by Databricks Partner
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Metric Views in Databricks: A Unified Approach to Business Metrics

Databricks has introduced a powerful feature—Metric Views—that transforms how organizations define, manage, and consume business metrics. Whether you're a data analyst, engineer, or business stakeholder, Metric Views offer a unified, governed, and re...

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Michael_Appiah
Databricks Partner
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@BijuThottathil : I don't have a workaround for you, but wanted to let you know that you can vote here https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Ideas/Enable-native-Power-BI-integration-with-Databricks-Metric-View/idi-p/4823684Hopefully, Micro...

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BijuThottathil
by New Contributor III
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Zero-Copy, Zero Friction: Bridging the Gap Between Databricks and Microsoft Fabric using Delta Share

Databricks Microsoft Fabric: Zero-Copy Integration with Delta SharingManaging data across different ecosystems usually means messy ETL pipelines and high storage costs. I implemented a Zero-Copy architecture to streamline this. By leveraging Delta S...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 improvements

Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 brings Literal string coalescing everywhere, thanks to what you can make your code more readable. Useful, for example, for table comments #databricks Latest updates: read: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Secrets in UC

We can see new grant types in Unity Catalog. It seems that secrets are coming to UC, and I especially love the "Reference Secret" grant. #databricks Read more:- https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-january-202...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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DABS JSON Plan

DABS deployment from a JSON plan is one of my favourite new options. You can review the changes or even integrate the plan with your CI/CD process. #databricks Read more:- https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-...

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AbhaySingh
by Databricks Employee
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The Agile Path to Autonomous Agents

I read about a team demo about their shiny new "autonomous AI agent” leadership. It queried databases, generated reports, sent Slack notifications—all hands-free. Impressive stuff. Two weeks later? $12K in API costs, staging data accidentally pushed ...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Ingest Everything, let's start with Excel

We can ingest Excel into Databricks, including natively from SharePoint. It was top news in December, but in fact is part of a big strategy which will allow us to ingest any format from anywhere in databricks. Foundation is already built as there is ...

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rathorer
by Databricks Partner
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Building MultiTenant Architecture on Databricks Platform

This use case demonstrates how a SaaS product can be deployed for multiple customers or business units, ensuring data isolation at every layer through workspace separation, fine-grained access control with Unity Catalog, and secure processing using U...

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andyssojet
New Contributor II
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Good breakdown of the Databricks storage and catalog isolation patterns.One thing to keep in mind: workspace binding and Unity Catalog handle data isolation well, but the authentication layer is where tenant context gets established first. Without pr...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Labels and sort by Field

Dashboards now offer more flexibility, allowing us to use another field or expression to label or sort the chart. See demo at:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ngQUkdmD3o&t=893s- https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-52-22-december-2...

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emma_s
by Databricks Employee
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Databricks Excel Reader

We’ve recently created a new Excel reader function, and I decided to have a play around with it. I’ve used an open dataset for this tutorial, so you can follow along too. Using file available here - https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/pe...

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Hubert-Dudek
Databricks MVP
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Nice example!

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Databricks Lakeflow Jobs Workflow Backfill

When something goes wrong, and your pattern involves daily MERGE operations in your jobs, backfill jobs let you reload multiple days in a single execution without writing custom scripts or manually triggering runs. Read more:- https://www.sunnydata.a...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Goodbye community edition, Long live the free edition

I just logged in to the community edition for the last time and spun up the cluster for the last time. Today is the last day, but it's still there. Haven't logged in there for a while, as the free edition offers much more, but it is a place where man...

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