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Dashboards deployment
It is finally possible to deploy dashboards using DABS and change the catalog and schema. It is solving the biggest problem with bringing the dashboard to production. New parameters for the dashboard resource were added: dataset_catalog and dataset...
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@Hubert-Dudek - This was really a much-awaited feature. Eventually DAB must cover all developed assets which requires promotion to higher environment to cover the CICD seamlessly.
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Window Functions in Metrics Views
The latest update for the first week of 2026 is the addition of window functions in Metrics View. In enterprises, there are always measures like cumulative sales or rolling forecast, so it is really important that we can use window functions in busin...
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@Hubert-Dudek - Thanks for sharing these bite-size updates as these get lost in many release-notes. Keep it up.
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Mix Shell with Python
Assigning the result of a shell command directly to a Python variable. It is my most significant finding in magic commands and my favourite one so far. Read about 12 magic commands in my blogs: - https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-hidden-magic-...
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Capture magic command
%%capture magic command not only suppresses cell output but also assigns it to a variable. You can later print cell output just by using the standard print() function #databricksRead about 12 magic commands in my blogs:- https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog...
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Identifiers Everywhere
Last from "everywhere" improvements in Spark 4.1 / Runtime 18 is IDENTIFIER(). Lack of support for IDENTIFIER() in many places is a major pain, especially when creating things like Materialized Views or Dashboard Queries. Of course, we need to wait a...
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Thanks for sharing @Hubert-Dudek !
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Secret magic commands
Secret magic commands, there are a lot of them. Check my blogs to see which one can simplify your daily work. First one is %%writefile, which can be used to write a new file, for example, another notebook #databricks more magic commands:- https://dat...
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Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 improvements
Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 brings parameter markers everywhere #databricks Latest updates: read: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-january-2025-432c6231d8b1 watch:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLjoTkceKQI
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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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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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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 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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