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Hubert-Dudek
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Catalog Managed Tables

Managed Tables, External Tables, Foreign Tables and... .. Catalog Managed Tables. If you are databricks user, you need to know why they are the best of all! https://databrickster.medium.com/catalog-commits-make-your-managed-delta-layer-safer-and-more...

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Nidhig631
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This is included with the Databricks managed table; there is no separate catalog managed table.

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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auto scope tokens

If you don’t know which permissions (scopes) to add to the access token (since some processes can require many scopes), just set access tokens to auto-scoping, and after 30 days, it will set the required scope based on usage during the first 30 days....

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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UI sync back to DABs

If you deploy a bundle from the UI in development mode (source-linked deployment) and edit it in the UI, changes are now propagated to the files. Really useful for jobs and dashboards. For jobs, of course, please always review in GIT as results in so...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Apps and Lakebase scaling

Lakebase can scale up more, and Apps are now getting horizontal scaling. Seems like #databricks is the best place to run your app now, any app. https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-cli-v-1-0-0-ai-tools-last-updated-25th-may-767ef39abe8a

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Databricks Docker and runtimes

Databricks published a list of its own runtimes as Docker images, but what is amazing is that it is not only the standard runtime but also some versions of runtimes, including my two favorites, minimal and version-matching serverless environment, and...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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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
by Databricks MVP
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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
by Databricks MVP
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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
by Databricks MVP
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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
by Databricks MVP
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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
by Databricks MVP
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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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