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Hubert-Dudek
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aitools

Now, using CLI, it is easy to generate databricks skills for your favorite agent. Just hit databricks aitools install #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-cli-v-1-0-0-ai-tools-last-updated-25th-may-767ef39abe8a    

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Hubert-Dudek
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CLI generally available

Databricks CLI and DABs are generally available, and the first version has been released! #databrickshttps://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-cli-v-1-0-0-ai-tools-last-updated-25th-may-767ef39abe8a  

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Hubert-Dudek
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Profiling

In SQL editor and Notebook, we can choose columns and see profiling. #databricks

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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copy-pasting of job parameters

Stop copy-pasting job parameters between your DABS. Especially ones for the catalog and schema. Just read about mutators! #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/global-job-parameters-thanks-to-dabs-mutators-2ad0d94bda1c https://www.sunnydata.ai...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Global job parameters

Global job parameters were always my dream. Additionally, centralized config for DABs. It is now possible thanks to Mutators! #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/global-job-parameters-thanks-to-dabs-mutators-2ad0d94bda1chttps://www.sunnydata...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Genie One Menu

It starts to look busy in Genie One Menu #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-lakeflow-designer-uv-package-manager-genie-tasks-disable-lakeflow-tasks-3e2cfb9ef86b

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Hubert-Dudek
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DABs templates

We can configure a folder in Workspace for custom DABs templates. If we click Create Bundle in the git repo, we can use our ready DABs template. #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-lakeflow-designer-uv-package-manager-genie-t...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Genie Schedule Tasks

Report every week for the given topic, now it is really easy, just ask for it! #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-lakeflow-designer-uv-package-manager-genie-tasks-disable-lakeflow-tasks-3e2cfb9ef86b  

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Hubert-Dudek
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%uv pip

In a serverless environment 5 (soon, probably in other environments as well), we can also install packages using the UV package manager. Tests show that it is even a few times faster! #databricks https://medium.com/@databrickster/databricks-news-lake...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Lakehouse Sync

Lakehouse Sync replicates data from Lakebase/Postgres directly into Unity Catalog Delta tables. It uses CDC from PostgreSQL WAL, with wal2delta doing the work. #databricks

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Hubert-Dudek
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Ingestion without CDF

You don't need CDF for incremental ingestion, and Databricks has decided to master query-based capture. https://databrickster.medium.com/watermark-based-incremental-ingestion-lakeflow-connect-query-based-capture-91836fbaa453https://www.sunnydata.ai/b...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Void

Delta support now includes VOID columns, which are empty columns in our Delta (can be kept for future use or for schema match). VOID is a new datatype; the only accepted value is NULL. https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-watermark-based-...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Implementing a naming convention

Thanks to Skills, we can finally implement the enterprise naming convention. Not only through Genie but also through Agent, auditing all our schemas. #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/implementing-enterprise-naming-convention-agentic-way-3...

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Hubert-Dudek
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readChangeFeed flag

 With readChangeFeed flag AUTO, CDC automatically reads data from the Delta CDF. Thanks to the new flag and the ability to orchestrate the pipeline from the SQL warehouse, processing the Delta CDF is faster than ever. #databricks https://www.sunnydat...

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