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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #22

During the last two weeks, five new Lakeflow Connect connectors were announced. It allows incremental ingestion of the data in an easy way. In the coming weeks, there will be more announcements about Lakeflow Connect, and we can expect Databricks to ...

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Calling for Speakers – Manchester Databricks User Group | 19 March 2026

Hi everyoneThe Manchester Databricks User Group is looking for speakers for our in-person meetup on Thursday, 19 March 2026.https://www.meetup.com/manchester-databricks-user-group/We’re keen to hear from Databricks users, practitioners, partners, and...

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kasinathanrames
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Free Certification voucher

looking for free certification voucher

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Advika
Community Manager
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Hello @udaykant3331 & @DavidClamp! Databricks offers 50% certification vouchers during its Learning Festival events.The upcoming Learning Festival is scheduled for January 9 – 30, 2026, where you can earn a discount voucher.You can find more details ...

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icurious
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Resolved! Error in creating external iceberg table

I am new to Databrcicks and was trying to create an Iceberg table. I have configured the Credentials and External Location using the UI under Catalog > External Locations and Credentials. I am able to create a table by using the Browse feature.But wh...

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icurious
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Thanks I am able to create a Lakehouse Federation and query the Snowflake catalog. So, if I create an Iceberg table in Databricks, one cannot access the path directly from else where like if I want to access it from Snowflake, right?

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #21

Your stream can have a state, and now, with TransformWithStateInPandas, it’s easy to manage - you can handle things like initial state, deduplication, recovery, etc., with the 2025 improvements.

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #20

As Unity Catalog becomes an enterprise catalog, bring-your-own lineage is one of my favorite features.

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kmaditha
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Resolved! Data Engineer Associate Certification in 2025 Voucher

Hi Community,I’m planning to take the Data Engineer Associate Certification in 2025 to advance my skills and career. Are there any ongoing promotions or opportunities to get a 50% discount voucher for the exam? It would be incredibly helpful if you c...

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Dineshvishe
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How to get voucher of exam

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #19

In 2025, Metrics Views are becoming the standard way to define business logic once and reuse it everywhere. Instead of repeating complex SQL, teams can work with clean, consistent metrics.

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lance-gliser
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Databricks apps - Volumes and Workspace - FileNotFound issues

I have a Databricks App I need to integrate with volumes using local python os functions. I've setup a simple test:  def __init__(self, config: ObjectStoreConfig): self.config = config # Ensure our required paths are created ...

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SarahA
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I would also like to see some responses to this problem.

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PavanDasa
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Certificate not received even after 5 days of exam completion

Hi Team,I haven't received the digital credentials even after 5 days of completion the data engineer associate certification successfully.Need help on this.Thank you

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cert-ops
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Hello @PavanDasa, Please check your spam just in case it went there. If you do not receive your badge in 48 hours, please file a ticket with our support team. Please also provide them with your email address so that they can look up your account (it ...

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Anonym40
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Resolved! Ingesting data from APIs

Hi, I need to ingest some data available at API endpoint. I was thinking of this option - 1. make API call from Notebook and save data to ADLS2. use AutoLoader to load data from ADLS location. But then, i have some doubts - like I can directly write ...

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Raman_Unifeye
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@Anonym40 - its generally a good idea to break the direct API calls to your rest of the data pipeline. By staging the data to ADLS, you are protecting your downstream to upstream processes and getting more restartability/maintenance in your e2e flow....

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ymmmm
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Account reset and loss of access to paid Databricks Academy Labs subscription

Hello,I am facing an issue with my Databricks Academy account.During a normal sign-in using my usual email address, I was asked to re-enter my first and last name, as if my account was being created again. After that, my account appeared to be reset,...

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ymmmm
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Thank you for your support and tour help

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jlancaster86
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Resolved! Can't find zip file for "Get Started with Databricks Free Edition"

Hi, all. I'm getting stuck on the second step of the "Get Started with Databricks Free Edition" course. It's obviously instructing me to download a zip file from a GitHub repository, but there is no link provided for the repository. What am I missing...

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Advika
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Update: The course instructions have now been updated. You can find the required ZIP file in the Repository section at the bottom of the lesson page.Apologies for the inconvenience, @jlancaster86 & @zwilk.

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #18

Automatic file retention in the autoloader is one of my favourite new features of 2025. Automatically move cloud files to cold storage or just delete.

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szymon_dybczak
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Thanks for sharing @Hubert-Dudek ! That's a really great feature. It simplified a lot data maintenance process at one of my clients

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Prathy
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AWS & Databricks Registration Issue

I have created both AWS and Databricks account but I cannot move to further steps in aws marketplace (configure and launch section)

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Advika
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Hello @Prathy!Also, please check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzjHI0DNbbsRefer to the deck linked in the video’s description (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ovZd...) and check slide no. 16, titled “Linking AWS to your Databricks ...

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