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Raman_Unifeye
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Spark Jobs View on a serverless cluster!! Naah.....

Have you ever noticed (and wondered) that the wonderful Spark Job UI is no longer available in the databricks notebook if the cell is executed using 'serverless' cluster?Tradionally, whenever we run the spark code (action command), we used to see the...

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Senga98
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Hi RamanThank you for the amazing insights! I am trying to understand more about SQL Warehouses - is it managed by Unity Catalog? From what I could gather, SQL Warehouse is a compute layer, not a data layer and therefore not managed by Unity Catalog....

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #7

Imagine all a data engineer or analyst needs to do to read from a REST API is use spark.read(), no direct request calls, no manual JSON parsing - just spark .read. That’s the power of a custom Spark Data Source. Soon, we will see a surge of open-sour...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #6

DBX is one of the most crucial projects of dblabs this year, and we can expect that more and more great checks from it will be supported natively in databricks. More about dbx on https://databrickslabs.github.io/dqx/

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #5

When something goes wrong, and your pattern is doing MERGEs per day in your jobs, backfill jobs will help you to reload many days in one shot.

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Raman_Unifeye
Honored Contributor III
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Full link of the actual blog for reference - https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-backfill-runs-lakeflow-jobs-higher-quality-downstream-data 

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025

With the first day of December comes the first window of our Databricks Advent Calendar. It’s a perfect time to look back at this year’s biggest achievements and surprises — and to dream about the new “presents” the platform may bring us next year. ...

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Advika
Community Manager
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Fantastic kickoff to the Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 , appreciate you steering the series, @Hubert-Dudek!

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #4

With the new ALTER SET, it is really easy to migrate (copy/move) tables. Quite awesome also when you need to make an initial load and have an old system under Lakehouse Federation (foreign tables).

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vishalveeraredd
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Building a Claude Code-Compatible Proxy for Databricks (with MCP, Git Tools, and Prompt Caching)

Many Databricks engineers have asked whether it's possible to use Claude Code CLI directly against Databricks-hosted Claude models instead of Anthropic's cloud API. This enables repo-aware AI workflows—navigation, diffs, testing, MCP tools—right insi...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #3

One of the biggest gifts is that we can finally move Genie to other environments by using the API. I hope DABS comes soon.

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Raman_Unifeye
Honored Contributor III
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@Hubert-Dudek - sure, willlook forward to this one.

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BijuThottathil
by New Contributor III
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Fast-Track Your Databricks Development: Using Widgets for Test and Production Modes

Test Mode Pattern with Databricks Widgets - Demo What's IncludedThis package contains comprehensive documentation and examples for implementing the Test Mode Pattern in Databricks notebooks using widgets. This pattern enables fast development cycles ...

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AbhaySingh
by Databricks Employee
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Your Coworkers Don't Get Databricks? Here's How to Fix That.

We've all been there. You're excited about the lakehouse, you see the value clear as day, and then you try explaining it to a coworker and their eyes glaze over. Slides don't cut it. Documentation links get ignored. What actually works? Showing them...

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Senga98
by Contributor
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The Medallion Architecture: Why Data Layers Matter for Modern Organisations

In today’s data-driven world, organisations are drowning in information. From customer transactions and IoT sensor readings to social media interactions and operational logs, the volume and variety of data continue to grow exponentially. Yet many org...

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Senga98
Contributor
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Thank you, @Louis_Frolio ! My next post is about Data Governance with Unity Catalog, stay tuned!!

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Thusharr
by Databricks Partner
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Unity cataog

Disaster recovery is possible in Unity catalog now?Means, for data level, we have enabled with geo redundancy, what about the objects, permissions, an other components in Unity catalog ? Can we restore the unity catalog metadata in another region ?

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gchandra
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Official product release in development will be available as PrPr in a few months. 

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Managing Databricks CLI Versions in Your DAB Projects

If you are going with DABS into a production environment, a CLI version is considered best practice. Of course, you need to remember to bump it up from time to time. Learn more: - https://databrickster.medium.com/managing-databricks-cli-versions-i...

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AbhaySingh
by Databricks Employee
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Distributed ML on Databricks Serverless

You can now run distributed ML (Spark MLlib in Python, Optuna tuning, MLflow Spark, Joblib Spark) on serverless notebooks/jobs and on standard clusters, not just dedicated ML clusters.It reuses the same Unity Catalog + Lakeguard stack you already use...

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