The calendar changed. The conversations didn’t. 
The year turned somewhere between a solved thread and a new question. 
No pause. No reset – just learning, continuing right where it left off. 
Here’s how it unfolded 👇

🔊  Voices That Moved the Conversation Forward

Featuring members who moved conversations forward with clarity, curiosity, and the confidence to contribute – welcoming a few new names into the callout 🎉

@Hubert-Dudek   |  @mukul1409   |  @Sanjeeb2024 

+ Top Brickster contributors:

@iyashk-DB   |   @emma_s 

Note: Names are listed in no particular order.

🧠  Community Articles & Partner Blog

From new feature updates to practical walkthroughs and lessons learned, the articles bring a surge of knowledge worth exploring👇

• Databricks Excel Reader
• Labels and sort by Field
• Databricks Lakeflow Jobs Workflow Backfill
• New resources under DABS
• Goodbye community edition, Long live the free edition
• Databricks Table Protection Features
• 5 Reasons You Should Be Using LakeFlow Jobs as Your Default Orchestrator
  
• Databricks Asset Bundles Direct Mode
• Version 1.1: Data Isolation and Governance within PySpark DataFrame's
• Designing Reliable Stream–Stream Joins with Watermarks in Databricks
• Meta Ads is now a native data source in Databricks Lakeflow Connect
• Lakebase Use Cases
• PostgreSQL to Databricks made simpler with Lakeflow Connect(Public Preview)
• Flexible Node Types
• DABs: Referencing Your Resources
• Confluence Lakeflow Connector
• [PARTNER BLOG] Zerobus Ingest on Databricks

🔍  Key Threads & Insights

      Highlights from the Discussions👇

• Azure databricks streamlit app unity catalog access
• How do I improve the performance of my Random Forest model on Databricks?
• Need Help - System tables that contains all databricks users, service principal details !!
• Iceberg interoperability between Databricks and external catalogs
• Azure Content Understanding Equivalent

✅  Problems → Solved

      This is where learning turns into impact 🙌

• while loading data from dataframe to spark sql table using .saveAstable() option, not working
• st_point is disabled or unsupported
• What are recommended approaches for feature engineering in Databricks ML projects?
• Calling a function with parameters via Spark ODBC driver
• Import .py files module does not work on VNET injected workspace
  

Every solved thread is more than a checkbox – it’s shared knowledge fueling thousands of brains. And it’s all possible because of you. This is what makes the Databricks Community truly special. 🙌

Wishing you all a very happy 2026 😃! May this year supercharge your learning, spark new insights, and take our Community to the next level. 😎