Databricks documentation update: Explore the latest Databricks docs, featuring practical how-to guides and in-depth reference material for data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers working in Databricks Data Science & Engineering, Machine Learning, and SQL.
Here’s your weekly roundup of key updates to help you quickly see what’s new and most relevant for your workloads.

AWS documentation update:

Getting Started

• Sign up for Databricks free trial with existing AWS account
• Sign up for Databricks Free Edition
• Get started tutorials on Databricks
• Search for workspace objects
• Partner-powered AI features
• What is Databricks Assistant?
• Connect Databricks Assistant to MCP servers
• Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects
• Connect to data sources and external services
• Connect to managed ingestion sources
• Query data
• Anomaly detection
• View data quality monitoring expenses
• Mounting cloud object storage on Databricks
• Unity Catalog credential vending for external system access

Data Management

• Managed connectors in Lakeflow Connect
• Automate job creation and management
• Lakebase Postgres
• Write queries and explore data in the new SQL editor
• Update to the latest Databricks SQL API version

AI & Analytics

• Apply AI on data using Databricks AI Functions
• Build gen AI apps on Databricks
• Query an agent deployed on Databricks
• Build and share a chat UI with Databricks Apps (Model Serving)
• What is an AI/BI Genie space
• Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space
• Curate an effective Genie space
• Use a Genie space to explore business data
• Use the Genie API to integrate Genie into your applications
• Manage AI/BI dashboard workspace themes

Platform

• Connect to serverless compute
• Compute configuration reference
• GPU-enabled compute
• Customize containers with Databricks Container Service
• Customize containers with Databricks Container Service
• Install libraries
• What are init scripts?
• Global init scripts
• Create a SQL warehouse
• Get started with Databricks Apps
• Configure a Databricks app
• Apply tags to Databricks apps
• Deploy a Databricks app

Integration

• Develop on Databricks
• Databricks Utilities (dbutils) reference
• CI/CD on Databricks
• Local development tools

Governance 

• Databricks administration overview
• Audit log reference

Reference & Release Notes

• Databricks release notes
• Databricks Runtime release notes versions and compatibility
• Databricks developer tools and SDKs release notes
• Databricks Asset Bundles feature release notes
• Databricks Connect release notes

AZURE documentation update:

Getting Started

• What is Azure Databricks?
• Azure Databricks components
• Get started tutorials on Azure Databricks
• Get started: Query LLMs and prototype AI agents with no code

Workspace UI

• Introduction to workspace objects
• Search for workspace objects
• Partner-powered AI features
• What is Databricks Assistant?
• Connect Databricks Assistant to MCP servers

Data Guides

• Apply tags to Unity Catalog securable objects
• Connect to data sources and external services
• Connect to managed ingestion sources
• Query data

Data Engineering

• Managed connectors in Lakeflow Connect
• CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW (pipelines)
• Use pipelines in Databricks SQL

OLTP Databases

• Lakebase Postgres
• Lakebase Autoscaling
• Lakebase

Data Warehousing

• Materialization for metric views
• Write queries and explore data in the new SQL editor
• Update to the latest Databricks SQL API version

AI & ML

• Get started with AI agents
• Tutorial: Create and deploy a Foundation Model Fine-tuning run
• Chat with LLMs and prototype generative AI apps using AI Playground
• Apply AI on data using Azure Databricks AI Functions
• AI Gateway
• Supported foundation models on Mosaic AI Model Serving
• Use foundation models
• Foundation Model APIs limits and quotas
• Applicable model developer licenses and terms
• Serverless GPU compute
• Large language models (LLMs)
• Hyperparameter tuning
• Introduction to generative AI apps on Azure Databricks
• Build gen AI apps on Azure Databricks
• Create an AI agent
• Agent Bricks
• Author an AI agent and deploy it on Databricks Apps
• AI agent tools

Business Intelligence

• Dashboard tutorials
• Create a dashboard
• Use Assistant for dashboard authoring
• What are custom calculations?
• Level of detail expressions
• Manage scheduled dashboard updates and subscriptions
• Clone a legacy dashboard to an AI/BI dashboard
• Work with dashboard parameters
• Dashboard settings
• Genie spaces with dashboards
• Dashboard visualizations
• What is an AI/BI Genie space
• Set up and manage an AI/BI Genie space
• Use a Genie space to explore business data
• AI/BI administration guide

Compute

• Compute configuration reference
• GPU-enabled compute
• Install libraries
• What are init scripts?

Apps

• Get started with Databricks Apps
• Set up your Databricks Apps workspace and development environment
• Configure a Databricks app
• Create a custom Databricks app
• View the details for a Databricks app
• Apply tags to Databricks apps
• Deploy a Databricks app

Developers

• Develop on Databricks
• Databricks Utilities (dbutils) reference
• Azure Databricks Git folders
• Set up Databricks Git folders
• CI/CD with Databricks Git folders
• Databricks Git folder limits and reference
• CI/CD on Azure Databricks
• Local development tools

Administration

• Databricks administration overview
• Create a workspace
• Deploy a workspace using the Azure Portal
• SQL warehouse admin settings
• Manage groups
• Sync users and groups automatically from Microsoft Entra ID
• Billable usage system table reference
• Diagnostic log reference

Security & Compliance

• Networking
• Customer-managed keys for managed services
• Secret management
• Compliance security profile

Data Governance (Unity Catalog)

• Governed tags
• View data lineage using Unity Catalog
• Flag data as certified or deprecated
• Work with the legacy Hive metastore alongside Unity Catalog
• Unity Catalog best practices

Reference & Release Notes

• Azure Databricks release notes
• Azure Databricks platform release notes
• Databricks Runtime release notes versions and compatibility
• Azure Databricks developer tools and SDKs release notes
• Databricks Asset Bundles feature release notes
• Databricks Connect release notes
• What's coming?

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