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MadelynM
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[Recap] Data + AI Summit 2024 - Data Governance | Navigate the explosion of AI, data and tools

Here's your Data + AI Summit 2024 - Data Governance recap as you navigate the explosion of AI, data and tools in efforts to build a flexible and scalable governance framework that spans your entire data and AI estate. Keynote: Evolving Data Governan...

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Ashley1
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Backup Unity Catalog and managed tables

Hi All, Can anyone point me to either documentation or personally tried and tested method of backing up (and restoring) Unity Catalog and its associated managed tables? We're running on Azure and using ADLS Gen2.Regards,Ashley

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shoebece
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This can be via 3rd party tool called commvault : https://documentation.commvault.com/11.42/software/protect_databricks_using_commvault.html

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kohei-matsumura
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Resolved! Specific audit logs are not being generated.

I changed the administrative permissions for a specific service principal in the account management screen.I expected an audit log to be generated with service_name = accountns and action_name = changeServicePrincipalAcls, as described in the audit l...

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kohei-matsumura
Databricks Partner
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Thank you very much!I understand

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nikhil_parab
by New Contributor
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Cost incurred for idle databricks cluster runtime

Hi Team,I have created databricks finops dashboard and within that I have provided recommendations on cluster auto termination. But I wanted add one more column like how much we can save after reducing auto termination time. How can I add that in my ...

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nayan_wylde
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For each cluster:Savings = Avoidable Idle Time × Hourly CostWhere:Avoidable Idle Time (minutes) = estimated minutes the cluster kept running after it became idle, beyond the recommended termination window.Hourly Cost = DBU cost + (optional) cloud com...

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MauriceDekker
by Databricks Partner
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Resolved! Using Databricks as a Governed Catalog for Reports and Enterprise Glossary

Hello Databricks Community,Databricks is making great progress towards becoming a truly governed and unified catalog. When it comes to governing and cataloguing physical data assets, it already offers a strong foundation. With the introduction of met...

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AnthoRichard
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Hi Maurice, thanks for sharing your experience. We're facing similar challenges! While Databricks shines with data assets and metric views, integrating report governance is tricky. We're experimenting with tagging reports in Power BI and then linking...

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excavator-matt
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Is the serverless budget/usage feature officially broken for certain serverless job "types"?

As we all know, the main method of cost attribution for serverless compute is with budget (sometimes called usage) policies (Public Preview). This is a new paradigm compared with the tagging of both classic compute and serverless SQL warehouses.The J...

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excavator-matt
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Thank you for your reply! This adds clarity to my confusion regarding serverless tagging. This information would have helped a lot if it was included in the official documentation. You should considering sending the technical documentation team your ...

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NW1000
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Can change a delta table, but not its schema

Is it possible to let a group in databricks to change a delta table, but not the table’s schema in UC? i.e., they can add or remove rows of the delta table, but cannot change the name or the format of the columns.

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @NW1000, No, Unity Catalog doesn’t let you separate change rows from change schema that finely.  To let a group insert/update/delete rows on a table, you must give them MODIFY on that table. MODIFY also allows ALTER TABLE operations like ADD/DROP/...

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ShankarM
by Databricks Partner
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Dataplex integration with Unity Catalog

Hi,I want to import Databricks metadata information from unity catalog including lineage into GCP Dataplex governance solution. Can you let me know the how this can be achieved.Similar to Purview and Unity Catalog integration, are there APIs to push ...

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sujand
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Hi Walter,Is it possible to migrate Databricks Unity Catalog data from Databricks to Google Dataplex without using API calls? What's the efficient way to move Unity Catalog data from Databricks to Google Dataplex? Please explain the steps. Thank you ...

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juliechen
by New Contributor II
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Databricks Genie: Power Users vs. Broad Org Access

Hi everyone,I’m curious if anyone has successfully implemented Databricks Genie (chat/agent) for production use.Currently, we’ve enabled a few Genie instances for power users who are comfortable working with data outside of the data team. However, we...

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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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Hi Julie, thanks for sharing the screenshot. There are a few things we'd recommend to customers when they are starting out on a Genie journey, we defintiely see enterprises creating Genie spaces at scale but it needs some thought and guardrails. Some...

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anton-genesis
by New Contributor II
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Accessing permanent file system from Databricks App

I have a Python-based FastAPI application with a React frontend, which I would like to deploy to Databricks apps. I'm able to do it, but having trouble with file system access. In addition to database access, my application relies on some file operat...

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nk-five1
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In the end, I just added the wheel to the app's source code and installed from there. Not ideal, but the module is small and checking the wheel into git was the lesser issue.This workaround runs fine for a few months now. My build pipeline takes care...

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APJESK
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Resolved! Unity catalog management

How is Unity Catalog managed in real time at an enterprise scale, including workspace-level restrictions, privilege-based ACLs, row- and column-level security, ABAC, and tag-driven governance, and which languages or tools are used to manage the entir...

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APJESK
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Thank you... Which roles ( workspace admin or Metastore Admin) are recommended to securely create and manage Unity Catalog objects (Storage Credentials, External Locations, Catalogs, Schemas, and Delta Sharing)?” and why ?

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isaac_gritz
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Data Access Control in Databricks

Best Practices for Securing Access to Data in DatabricksUnity Catalog is the unified governance solution for Data & AI assets in Databricks and greatly simplifies and centralized data access control. This guide includes best practices for both the st...

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APJESK
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Which roles ( workspace admin or Metastore Admin) are recommended to securely create and manage Unity Catalog objects (Storage Credentials, External Locations, Catalogs, Schemas, and Delta Sharing)?” and why ?

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SandyGT
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Resolved! Add "Title" Clause to DDL statements

The company that I work for has DDL where the column names/table names are not always that intuitive. It would be great to see the "Title" clause such that is used in ANSI SQL, added to the DDL statement so that the logical name can come through to t...

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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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Hi Sandy, the best way of getting this as a feature request is to go through your account team, that way the weight of your account is behind the feature request and it's more likely to be prioritised. I've had a look internally and I can't find this...

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piotrsofts
by Databricks Partner
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Data segregated by Domain - how to do that

In the Databricks one demo, and even in official website I seehttps://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-databricks-one"Domains", how to enable it ? Or add "Domain" to data?

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piotrsofts
Databricks Partner
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Hey, I've seen that solution is already available, thanks for remindind.

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abhijit007
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Resolved! GDPR/CCPA Compliance Delete for PII data

Hi,I am currently designing a PII governance framework to meet CCPA compliance requirements on Databricks. I understand that Databricks provides mechanisms such as VACUUM and Deletion Vectors combined with REORG … APPLY (PURGE) to permanently remove ...

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aleksandra_ch
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Hi @abhijit007 , A new Data Classification feature (currently in Public Preview), allows to automatically classify and tag sensitive data in your catalog. It goes through few steps: AI-driven engine scans Unity Catalog tables and detects PII data and...

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Vivek_Mumbai
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Resolved! Difference between RBAC and Unity Catalog

I am new to Databricks and trying to understand the concepts first, before getting into technical deepdive. I am a bit confused between Role Based Access Control and Unity Catalog. Both feature controls access to the data. Can someone provide me the ...

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Vivek_Mumbai
New Contributor III
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Thanks for the explanation @Ashwin_DSA . It is now clear.

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