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In this video, I try to showcase in a very simplified way how to enable and setup AI & BI dashboards to control costs and take actions. I hope this could be useful. I think it is a superb feature to get insights on costs while straightforward to setu...
Problem StatementIn one of my recent projects, I faced a significant challenge: Writing a huge dataset of 11,582,763,212 rows and 2,068 columns to a Databricks managed Delta table.The initial write operation took 22.4 hours using the following setup:...
Hey @Louis_Frolio ,Thank you for the thoughtful feedback and great suggestions!A few clarifications:AQE is already enabled in my setup, and it definitely helped reduce shuffle overhead during the write.Regarding Column Pruning, in this case, the fina...
You asked, we delivered! Another BrickTalk is scheduled for Thursday, Nov 13 @ 9 AM PT with Pranav Aurora on how to bring data intelligence from your Lakehouse into every app and user, seamlessly and in real time.
What you’ll learn:
Use Lakebase (Po...
At Databricks, our Community members deserve to get a great experience in our forums, with quality answers from the experts. Who better to help out our customers than Databricks employees aka Bricksters!
To work towards this goal, we created the Comm...
Kudos to the DB team for keeping up with the community, but can you please work on your product as well?We are experiencing a lot of issues with your paid product: failures, crashes, slow starts and slow performance and the list goes on. Community wo...
Recently having some fun with Databricks, I created a series of videos in Spanish that I'd like to share here. I hope some of them could be interesting for Spanish or LATAM community Not sure if this is the most proper board to share or there is ano...
Episode 1: Getting Data InLearning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition.Project IntroWelcome to everyone reading. My name’s Ben, a.k.a BS_THE_ANALYST, and I’m going to share my experiences as I learn the world of Databricks. My obje...
The Apache Spark™ 4.0 introduces a new feature for SQL developers and data engineers: SQL Scripting. As such, this feature enhances the power and extends the flexibility of Spark SQL, enabling users to write procedural code within SQL queries, with t...
Episode 3: APIsLearning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition.Project IntroWelcome to everyone reading. My name’s Ben, a.k.a BS_THE_ANALYST, and I’m going to share my experiences as I learn the world of Databricks. My objective is to...
Episode 2: Reading Excel FilesLearning Databricks one brick at a time, using the Free Edition.You can download the accompanying Notebook and Excel files used in the demonstration over on my GitHub:Excel Files & Notebook: https://github.com/BSanalyst...
With managed tables, you can reduce your storage and compute costs thanks to predictive optimization or file list caching. Now it is really time to migrate external tables to managed ones, thanks to ALTER SET MANAGED functionality.
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Are you familiar with this scenario: Your data team spends 80% of their time fixing infrastructure issues instead of extracting insights.In today’s data-driven world, organisations are drowning in data but starving for actionable insights. Traditiona...
I have a notebook with a text widget where I want to be able to edit the value of the widget within the notebook and then reference it in SQL code. For example, assuming there is a text widget named Var1 that has input value "Hello", I would want to ...
It seems that only way to use parameters in sql code block is to use dbutils.widget and you cannot change those parameters without removing widget and setting it up again in code
Just the policy_id can specify the entire cluster configuration. Yes, we can inherit default and fixed values from policies. Updating runtime version for 100s of jobs, for example, is much easier this way.
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- https://databrickster.med...
Now you can define relations also directly in Genie. It includes options like “Many to One”, “One to Many”, “One to One”, “Many to Many”.
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- https://databrickster.medium.com/relationship-in-databricks-genie-f8bf59a9b578
- https://www.su...
Real-Time Mode in Spark StreamingApache Spark™ Structured Streaming has been the backbone of mission-critical pipelines for years — from ETL to near real-time analytics and machine learning.Now, Databricks has introduced something game-changing: Real...