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Loganath
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DQX Open Dashboard Setup - Quality Dashboard

Hi Databricks Community,I'm trying to set up the DQX quality open-dashboard(inbuilt) to monitor my quarantined/failed records but encountering issues.**Setup Details:**- DQX version: 0.12.0- Existing DQX structure at: /Workspace/supply_chain_dqx/- Qu...

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sarahbhord
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Hey @Loganath!  Please try the steps here for installation in the Databricks cluster or notebook. This is how you can avoid using the CLI. You can install a specific version of DQX in your Databricks workspace via Databricks CLI by running: databrick...

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JIWON
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Infinite loading specific to Arc Browser

Hi all,I previously reported issues where the Databricks Workspace UI (Jobs DAG, Compute, SQL Editor, Notebooks) was stuck on infinite loading.I previously encountered similar symptons, and at that time, the issue eventually resolved itself spontaneo...

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sarahbhord
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Hey @JIWON! Agreed — this is almost certainly an Arc-specific quirk, not Chromium itself. Known Arc pain points match your symptoms so you are not alone! We've seen the following fixes come in handy in previous, similar situations: Clear site data fo...

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Suresh_Ulhasnag
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Resolved! Is there support for Confluent Kafka in databricks free edition

I want to do a streaming POC using trial version of Confluent Kafka.Will databricks free edition support it?

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Pat
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Hi @Suresh_Ulhasnag ,Yes it's supported. You can have a look at my github repo: https://github.com/cloud-data-engineer/data/blob/main/dlt_telco/docs/README.mdIn bronze layer I am connecting to Confluent Kafka: https://github.com/cloud-data-engineer/d...

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silaslnsilva
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Resolved! recover workspace notebooks

Hi, My study notebooks that were in the Databricks Community workspace have been deleted.Are there any birds I can follow to retrieve them?

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Hey @silaslnsilva — there was a Community notification noting that Databricks Community Edition would be retired at the end of 2025. Prior to retirement, users were given a quick “migrate” link to move their assets over to Free Edition. Unfortunately...

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fehrin1
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Resolved! whitelist for outbound network access?

Hi all,It is documented, that the free edition has limitations as to which external hosts and domains can be accessed.Is there a known (white) list of hosts/domains which can be accessed?As an example i can access pypi.org but not wikipedia.org. 

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fehrin1
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So why is wikipedia.org accessible with a free edition hosted in eu-west-1 (-> @szymon_dybczak), but not with a free edition hosted in us-east-2 (-> me)?

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fehrin1
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Resolved! dbfs directory listing has changed

Today withdatabricks -p FREE fs ls dbfs: -li getDIRECTORY 0 1970-01-01T01:00:00Z VolumesDIRECTORY 0 1970-01-01T01:00:00Z WorkspaceDIRECTORY 0 1970-01-01T01:00:00Z databricks-datasetsBut until recently i got significantly more output includeing someth...

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fehrin1
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While i got a perfectly sound answer, i want to mention that i probably confused the outputs of databricks fs ls (remote) and df (local).

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fehrin1
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Resolved! Using the apt package manager

With DB free edition is there any hope tu use the apt tool for doing e.g. apt update? 

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @fehrin1 ,It won't work in serverless. It would require root user or sudo permissions and that's not an option in Serverless.

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fehrin1
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Resolved! root user in free edition web console?

Hi all,With DB free edition i am logged in as a spark-xxxx user after opening web console.Is it possible to work as root user and how?I have access to a commercial DB instance and here i am in fact root with opening the web console. How is this contr...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @fehrin1 ,Unfortunately ,this is not possible in Serverless. You can't login as root or use sudo command.

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Mohanraj_Kandha
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Resolved! unable to read file in workspace/user in free edition

I am unable to read the file in workspace/user in free edition, it was actually possible few weeks back but now it throws this error"[FAILED_READ_FILE.NO_HINT] Error while reading file dbfs:REDACTED_LOCAL_PART@outlook.com/BigMartSales.csv. SQLSTATE: ...

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szymon_dybczak
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Yes, in Free Edition dbfs is disabled. If you want to upload your own files just create a managed volume in Unity Catalog. 

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Rafa3loneil
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Resolved! Unable to Create a pipeline in order to populate a table with Auto Loader

Hello,I'm new to using Databricks Free Edition and I'm following the Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connection training track. Since I'm using the free version, I don't have access to the available lab resources.In the Auto Loader training step, I've a...

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pradeep_singh
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If you havent already .Below Catalog option of left hand side select Jobs and pipelines Select Create a new pipeline Point this pipeline to source from this notebook . Run the pipeline . Thsi is how you run a SDP code 

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Thomas_Aimiuwu
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Resolved! unity catalog

please how do you create a unity catalog in a free edition? 

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Thomas_Aimiuwu
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create table demo.cases_test asselect * from csv.`/Volumes/workspace/demo/raw/cases_test.csv`WITH (  header = "true",  inferSchema  "true"); The above query also works for csv file and below works for json,parquet files respectively %sqldrop table if...

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Thomas_Aimiuwu
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Resolved! creating tables

%sqlThis in pay-as-you-gocreate table if not exists demo.test(country string,indicator string,date string,year_week string,value string,source string,url string)using csvoptions(path "/mnt/formal1/hospital_admissions.csv")the above worked in a pay-as...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @Thomas_Aimiuwu ,Here's a workaround. Of course adjust following piece of code to your needs.%sql SELECT * FROM read_files( '/Volumes/workspace/demo/raw/hospital_admissions.csv', format => 'csv', sep => ',', header => true ); The reason wh...

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Smishra_31
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Resolved! Lost my entire code base in community edition

Team, It's an Mayday Mayday Mayday situation !!!!!!!!!!!I need my entire code base back for the databricks community edition. This is totally unacceptable or a good sign of trust from databricks without any prior info how can you guy's erode the comp...

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Barah
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Same issue with me, how to recover the old code base ?

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Suresh_Ulhasnag
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Resolved! Please do not discontinue Community Edition

Hi,A lot of Tutorials that I refer on YouTube (Most of them for 2025) still refer to community edition. Certain features in Community edition, especially related to Optimization do not appear in Free edition.Please do not discontinue Community editio...

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willdatabricks
Databricks Employee
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Hi @Suresh_Ulhasnag , thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately we can no longer support Databricks Community Edition. Could you point us to the youtube tutorials that point to CE? We'd like to work with the creators to get them updated. Thanks!

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