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Metric Views in Databricks: A Unified Approach to Business Metrics
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...
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@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...
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Zero-Copy, Zero Friction: Bridging the Gap Between Databricks and Microsoft Fabric using Delta Share
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...
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Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 improvements
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...
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Secrets in UC
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...
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DABS JSON Plan
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-...
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The Agile Path to Autonomous Agents
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 ...
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Ingest Everything, let's start with Excel
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 ...
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Building MultiTenant Architecture on Databricks Platform
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...
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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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Labels and sort by Field
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...
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Databricks Excel Reader
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...
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Nice example!
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Databricks Lakeflow Jobs Workflow Backfill
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...
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New resources under DABS
More and more resources are available under DABS. One of the newest additions is the alerts resource.
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Goodbye community edition, Long live the free edition
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...
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Databricks Table Protection Features
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...
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Thanks for sharing this. Time Travel is applicable all tables in Databricks NOT restricted to gold.
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5 Reasons You Should Be Using LakeFlow Jobs as Your Default Orchestrator
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...
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