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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This article provides an overview of key Databricks features and best practices that protect Gold tables from accidental deletion. It also covers the implications if both the Gold and Landing layers are deleted without active retention or backup. Cor...
I recently saw a business case in which an external orchestrator accounted for nearly 30% of their total Databricks job costs. That's when it hit me: we're often paying a premium for complexity we don't need. Besides FinOps, I tried to gather all the...
There is a new direct mode in Databricks Asset Bundles: the main difference is that there is no Terraform anymore, and a simple state in JSON. It offers a few significant benefits:
- No requirement to download Terraform and terraform-provider-databr...
See the comments below for a runnable notebookThroughout my career I have worked at several companies that handle sensitive data; including PII, PHI, EMR, HIPPA, Class I/II/III FOMC - Internal (FR). One entity I worked at even required a Department O...
We just failed a HIPAA audit, they asked why our pipelines had patients names in the if the pipeline didnt need that info, they recommended it to be encrypted. We thought S3 encryption was good enough.We implemented row level encryption by extending ...
Stream–stream joins are one of the most powerful features in Databricks Structured Streaming – and also one of the easiest to misconfigure. As soon as you move from simple append-only pipelines to real-time correlations across multiple streams (order...