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-...
How Digital Payment Lending Platforms Can Collaborate with Banks Without Exposing Sensitive Data1. Business Context & Regulatory RealityIn 2020, large Indian fintech platforms faced a unique regulatory constraint: NBFC‑led digital platforms were not ...
%%capture magic command not only suppresses cell output but also assigns it to a variable. You can later print cell output just by using the standard print() function #databricksRead about 12 magic commands in my blogs:- https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog...
Last from "everywhere" improvements in Spark 4.1 / Runtime 18 is IDENTIFIER(). Lack of support for IDENTIFIER() in many places is a major pain, especially when creating things like Materialized Views or Dashboard Queries. Of course, we need to wait a...
Thanks for sharing @Hubert-Dudek !
Secret magic commands, there are a lot of them. Check my blogs to see which one can simplify your daily work. First one is %%writefile, which can be used to write a new file, for example, another notebook #databricks more magic commands:- https://dat...
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...
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
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...
@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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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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