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JazmineSims
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How Can We Improve Data Pipeline Performance in Databricks?

Hello Databricks Community!I'm exploring different ways to improve data pipeline performance and make data processing more efficient using Databricks.As datasets continue to grow, maintaining fast, reliable, and cost-effective data pipelines becomes ...

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Yougasundar
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Hi @JazmineSims,Good questions. Here is what I use, in your order. 1) For large Spark jobs, open the query profile or the Spark UI first and find the stage with the most time, spill or skew, before you change compute. Also filter early, so that data ...

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shiv5
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Databricks Free Edition – AI Playground Empty and system.ai Schema Does Not Exist

Hello Databricks Team,I recently created a new Databricks Free Edition account using my Google account and also completed LinkedIn identity verification.I am learning Generative AI and prompt engineering, but I cannot access any foundation models in ...

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Yougasundar
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Hi @shiv5,The “no longer available, please use Unity Gateway” message tells you what has changed. The old databricks-* pay-per-token endpoint names are the legacy path. Databricks-hosted models now come through Unity Gateway as model services in Unit...

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judeantoony
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Free Edition workspace errors: "Failed to load folder" (GetFilebrowserHeaderFolder unavailable)

Hi everyone,I'm using Databricks Free Edition for a data engineering learning project. After a break of about 2 days, my workspace shows errors:1. On opening the workspace: "Workspaces Prefetch error: 500"2. After the page loaded: "Failed to load fol...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @judeantoony, Workspaces Prefetch error: 500" and the GetFilebrowserHeaderFolder ... temporarily unavailable message are both server-side errors. They come from the backend that serves your workspace, not from your browser. That's why the hard ref...

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Sam92
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Databricks Free Edition – Workspaces Prefetch Error 500 After Gmail Verification

Hi everyone,I have been using Databricks Free Edition regularly for learning and practising Data Engineering. However, since today, I am unable to access my workspace.I can log in successfully using my Gmail account and complete the email verificatio...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @Sam92, Workspaces Prefetch error: 500" and the GetFilebrowserHeaderFolder ... temporarily unavailable message are both server-side errors. They come from the backend that serves your workspace, not from your browser. That's why the hard refresh, ...

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judeantoony
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Free Edition workspace not loading: "Workspaces Prefetch error: 500"

Hello Databricks Free Edition Support Team,I am unable to use my Databricks Free Edition workspace. When I open it after login, the page shows the error "Workspaces Prefetch error: 500".Details:- Workspace URL: https://dbc-9ddc46a1-1851.cloud.databri...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Hi @judeantoony, Workspaces Prefetch error: 500" and the GetFilebrowserHeaderFolder ... temporarily unavailable message are both server-side errors. They come from the backend that serves your workspace, not from your browser. That's why the hard ref...

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nrajkumarf3
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Cluster Creation Failed

Hi Everyone, I am encountering an issue with Databricks cluster creation and would appreciate your support in resolving it.During cluster launch, the creation fails with the following network health check error:Error Details:  - Error Code: X_NHC_CON...

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ThomazNeto
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Hi,Both checks timing out, the control plane (centralindia.azuredatabricks.net) and www.databricks.com, usually means the cluster subnets have no outbound path at all, not a problem with one specific endpoint. The error codes doc says the same: when ...

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saranya1234
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Subject: Databricks Free Edition – Workspaces Prefetch error 500 after successful OTP authentication

Databricks Free Edition login issue - Workspaces Prefetch error 500Hello Databricks Team,I am unable to access my Databricks Free Edition workspace.My workspace was working properly last week. Today, after entering my Microsoft email and completing O...

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NinaThoni
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Hi there @saranya1234 , Thanks for the detailed write-up and for trying all those steps. Your workspace and your projects are safe, and you shouldn't need a new account. Earlier today a temporary service issue broke sign-in for some workspaces in the...

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luisconcha
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Databricks Free Edition – HTTP 400 "Unable to determine workspace context" (browser and CLI)

Hi everyone!I'm having trouble accessing my Databricks Free Edition workspace on AWS, and I'm hoping someone here might have experienced something similarThe workspace was working normally on October 29, 2026, until approximately 20:45 UTC. I had suc...

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luisconcha
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Hi @LingeshK ,Thank you for your response and for looking into this issue.I completely understand that Free Edition doesn't include a workspace recovery guarantee, and that's not a problem in my case. Fortunately, all my project code is already store...

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TusharrMishra
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Login Issue

 I had community account with databricks and I was getting error with login.  So I decided to get them closed and asked the team to close it.  Mail subject [] Re: Account deletion: Re: Data Deletion Request / SSO Authentication Loop - [ ref:_00D61JGc...

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Sadiq_Satwilkar
Databricks Employee
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Hi there, Have a look at this and see if any of these will help resolve your issuehttps://community.databricks.com/t5/support-faqs/databricks-community-sso-august-3rd-2024/ta-p/78459

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windstone
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Increase Unity Catalog tables-per-schema quota

My workspace has a UC resource quota of 100 tables per schema. I need this increased to 250. The schema ( Lakehouse Federation foreign catalog connected to PostgreSQL) contains 214 tables, but only 120 can be registered. The default limit should be 1...

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Jen_Evangelista
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The 10,000 number is from the general resource limits page, and that page sends Free Edition users to a separate limitations page. Free Edition has its own restrictions, no account console and no support or account team, so the usual "request an incr...

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mohitsahu2014
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Not able to access my old Databricks account

Hi Team,I am still not able to access my Databricks page, when I am trying to do the login, I am getting this "You currently do not have access to Help Center".

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keri12lee
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Hello,I’m still unable to access my Databricks page. Whenever I try to log in, I receive the message, “You currently do not have access to Help Center.” Could someone please help me resolve this issue and restore my access? Any guidance would be grea...

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SantiNath_Dey
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Resolved! How to Connect Databricks Genie AI via API

How can I connect Databricks Genie AI from a third-party tool using API execution?

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Saurabh2310
Databricks Employee
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Adding a 2026 update for anyone landing here:- Custom app → Genie Agents/Conversation API (start conversation, poll until complete)- Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client → Genie One MCP server via Unity Gateway: /ai-gateway/mcp-services/system.ai.ge...

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volodymyr_b
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Possible bug in Lakeflow Connect SQL Server ingestion with GUID primary keys – Missing records

Hi everyone,We've encountered a strange issue with Databricks Lakeflow Connect query-based ingestion from SQL Server, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar.We have a SQL Server table with 1,448 records and a uniqueidentif...

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ethan_parmer
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Hi @volodymyr_b — I think your theory is right, and your own log line backs it up.SQL Server doesn’t sort uniqueidentifier the way the string sorts. It compares the last 6-byte group first (the FFE14F608876 part), then works backward through the othe...

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Aminsn
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Jobs suddenly stopped running with no errors

I have had a few jobs scheduled to run daily since last year. There were no problems for the first 10 months, but on 31 August 2026, the jobs suddenly stopped running, with no errors or messages indicating the cause.I rescheduled the jobs, and they s...

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anuj_lathi
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Silent stops like this usually come down to one of two things: the trigger got paused, or runs are being skipped because an earlier run is still active. Your job-level history and the audit log can tell you which. 1. Check whether the trigger is pau...

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Krishinas
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My data saved in the account lost

Hi, I was using databricks free edition and was having few learning data saved and running all off sudden, asked me to sign up again and i lost my data how to restore 

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anuj_lathi
Databricks Employee
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Most likely you're not seeing lost data. You've landed in a different Databricks account/workspace than the one your Free Edition work lives in. When the sign-in flow asked "free or subscription" and you went through OTP again, it probably created o...

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