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balajij8
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Databricks AIBI: Moving from Report Factories to bAIBI

Organizations created report factories in the last few decades. We have spent decades in creating the paginated reports and interactive dashboards in various BI tools yet face the same bottleneck when the business asks a question, and data team takes...

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emma_s
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Bristol's first ever Databricks Meetup

What an excellent evening at the inaugural Databricks Bristol Meetup! It was great to finally have an Databricks community in Bristol. A massive thanks to iO Associates for pulling this together and also to the awesome speakers. The evening had two g...

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RobertSLee
by Databricks Employee
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Stream a CockroachDB Changefeed to Databricks (Azure Edition)

Please check https://github.com/rsleedbx/crdb_to_dbx  which has the steps and a working notebook. This guide shows how to stream CockroachDB data to Databricks using changefeeds, Azure Blob Storage, Unity Catalog, and Delta Lake. You get one platform...

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Saurabh2406
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Resolved! Data Driven AI Roadmap Databricks Governance Best Practices Aligned with Gartner's AI Model

Introduction“AI First” - But Data Always Comes FirstI have been working in the data space for close to two decades. My journey started as an ETL developer and gradually evolved into roles spanning data engineering, platform design, and solution archi...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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@Saurabh2406 , I really appreciate how you grounded the “AI-first” conversation in the reality that data governance, security, and quality are what actually determine whether AI can scale beyond pilots. The tie-in to Gartner’s AI maturity model, and ...

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AbhaySingh
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Wait, Did Databricks Just Put Git Inside My Database?

Wait, Did Databricks Just Put Git Inside My Database? If you've been scratching your head at Lakebase's "branching" feature wondering "am I working with a database or GitHub?"—you're not alone. Let me break down what's actually happening here, becaus...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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@AbhaySingh ,  This was a fun read — and a great way to spark discussion about what “Git inside my database” really means in practice. From what I’m seeing in the product world, Databricks isn’t literally putting Git inside the storage engine of your...

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Raman_Unifeye
by Honored Contributor III
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New Feature for developer-productivity

Databricks has added 2 new feature on its UI. These are small but quite effective for the developer productivity.  1. Paste images into notebooksCopy images from your local file system and paste them into markdown cells in Databricks notebookshttps:/...

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TejeshS
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Building a Metadata Table-Driven Framework Using LakeFlow Declarative (Formerly DLT) Pipelines

IntroductionScaling data pipelines across an organization can be challenging, particularly when data sources, requirements, and transformation rules are always changing. A metadata table-driven framework using LakeFlow Declarative (Formerly DLT) enab...

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satyaguruchara6
Databricks Partner
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can you please share the details how this can be implemented using a sample use case in step by step process. Also python code that needs to written in each layer (bronze/silver/gold) 

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pradeep_singh
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Turning Databricks into an AI pair‑programmer with Claude‑powered coding agents

Databricks + Claude Code This guide walks through a practical, end‑to‑end setup: installing Claude Code, wiring it to Anthropic models served from Databricks, and configuring authentication so everything “just works” from your terminal and editor. Yo...

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hasnat_unifeye
Databricks Partner
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I have yet to use Claude within Databricks - Thanks for this @pradeep_singh 

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JstelaBR
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You can use built-in AI functions directly in Databricks SQL

Databricks provides built-in AI functions that can be used directly in SQL or notebooks, without managing models or infrastructure.Example:SELECT ticket_id, ai_generate( 'Summarize this support ticket:\n{{text}}', 'databricks-dbrx-instruct', descript...

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mark_ott
by Databricks Employee
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How can I tell my Dashboard visualizations aren't stale?

With AI/BI Dashboards, a best practice is for the creator/owner to 'Schedule' the Dashboard to rerun the underlying datasets when changes have occurred. This ensures the Visualizations are rendered with the freshest data.  But users still will questi...

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Michael_Appiah
Databricks Partner
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@mark_ott That is a nice idea and quite useful. Quick question: how did you define 'stale' data in your case? So what is the threshold at which your 'conditional equation' color codes the date red? did you somehow link that to the refresh schedule? 

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Brahmareddy
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Data + AI Is Not the Future at Databricks. It’s the Present.

One thing becomes very clear when you spend time in the Databricks community: AI is no longer an experiment. It is already part of how real teams build, ship, and operate data systems at scale.For a long time, many organizations treated data engineer...

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Brahmareddy
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Thanks @Louis_Frolio for your kind words. Happy to contribute here.

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devipriya
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Getting Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate (and What I Learned)

I just earned my Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate Certification, and in this post, I’m sharing the key tips, resources, and personal insights that helped me succeed. My certiticate from DatabricksNavigation:PreludeAbout the certR...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Hey @devipriya , thanks for sharing your notes on how you found success with the certification(s). Appreciate you taking the time to pass along what worked for you. Cheers, Louis

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Raman_Unifeye
by Honored Contributor III
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Change default workspace access to Consumer access

When Databricks One was launched, the default behaviour of the system-managed users group was a major issue. Since every new user is automatically added to users group, and that group traditionally came with "Workspace Access" entitlements, admins ha...

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Raman_Unifeye
Honored Contributor III
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Thanks @Advika. it was certainly a big win for my env.

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