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ChristianRRL
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Performance Comparison: spark.read vs. Autoloader

Hi there, I would appreciate some help to compare the runtime performance of two approaches to performing ELT in Databricks: spark.read vs. Autoloader. We already have a process in place to extract highly nested json data into a landing path, and fro...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @ChristianRRL ,For that kind of ingestion scenario autoloader is a winner . It will scale much better than batch approach - especially if we are talking about large number of files.If you configure autoloader with file notification mode it can sca...

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ChristianRRL
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Resolved! AutoLoader Ingestion Best Practice

Hi there, I would appreciate some input on AutoLoader best practice. I've read that some people recommend that the latest data should be loaded in its rawest form into a raw delta table (i.e. highly nested json-like schema) and from that data the app...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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I think the key thing with holding the raw data in a table, and not transforming that table, is that you have more flexibility at your disposal. There's a great resource available via Databricks Docs for best practices in the Lakehouse. I'd highly re...

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ChristianRRL
by Valued Contributor III
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Resolved! What is `read_files`?

Bit of a silly question, but wondering if someone can help me better understand what is `read_files`?read_files table-valued function | Databricks on AWSThere's at least 3 ways to pull raw json data into a spark dataframe:df = spark.read...df = spark...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
Esteemed Contributor III
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Also, @ChristianRRL , with a slight adjustment to the syntax, it does indeed behave like Autoloaderhttps://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ingestion/cloud-object-storage/auto-loader/patterns?language=SQL I'd also advise looking at the different options th...

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Maria_fed
by New Contributor III
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Need help migrating company customer and partner academy accounts to work properly

Hi, originally I accidentally made a customer academy account with my company that is a databricks partner. Then I made an account using my personal email and listed my company email as the partner email for the partner academy account. that account ...

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Vaishali2
New Contributor II
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Need help to merge my customer portal id with  partner mail id my case number is 00754330 

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rcostanza
by New Contributor III
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Trying to reduce latency on DLT pipelines with Autoloader and derived tables

What I'm trying to achieve: ingest files into bronze tables with Autoloader, then produce Kafka messages for each file ingested using a DLT sink.The issue: latency between file ingested and message produced get exponentially higher the more tables ar...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Hi, I think it is a delay of the autoloader as it doesn't know about the ingested files. It is nothing in common with the state, as it is just an autoloader and it keeps a list of processed files. Autloader scans the directory every minute, usually a...

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frunzy
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Resolved! how to import sample notebook to azure databricks workspace

In the second onboarding video, the Quickstart Notebook is shown. I found that notebook here:https://www.databricks.com/notebooks/gcp-qs-notebook.htmlI wanted to import it to my workspace in Azure Databricks account, to play with it. However, selecti...

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Hubert-Dudek
Databricks MVP
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I reported this as a bug:

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thethirtyfour
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Configure Databricks in VSCode through WSL

Hi,I am having a hard time configuring my Databricks workspace when working in VSCode via WSL. When following the steps to setup Databricks authentication I am receiving the following error on the Step 5 of "Step 4: Set up Databricks authentication"....

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RaulMoraM
New Contributor III
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What worked for me was NOT opening the browser using the pop-up (which generated the 3-legged-OAuth flow error), but clicking on the link provided by the CLI (or copy paste the link on the browser)

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Lakshmipriya_N
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Resolved! Request to Extend Partner Tech Summit Lab Access

Hi Team,I would appreciate it if my Partner Tech Summit lab access could be extended, as two of the assigned labs were inaccessible. Could you please advise whom I should contact for this?Thank you.Regards,Lakshmipriya

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @Lakshmipriya_N ,Create a support ticket and wait for reply:Contact Us

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shrutigupta12
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! DataBricks Certification Exam Got Suspended. Require Immediate support

Hello @Cert-Team  @Certificate Team,Request Id# 00432042I encountered a pathetic experience while attempting my Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional certification exam. This is a completely unethical process to harass the examinee and lose...

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TechInspired
New Contributor II
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Hi @Cert-Team, I had similar issue. My exam got suspended too. I had already completed my exam when it got suspended. So you can either evaluate and provide the results or help me reschedule the exam. I have raised a request - #00750846, its been mor...

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RaviG
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! How to install whl from volume for databricks_cluster_policy via terraform.

I would expect resource "databricks_cluster_policy" "cluster_policy" {  name = var.policy_name  libraries {    Volumes {        whl = "/Volumes/bronze/config/python.wheel-1.0.3-9-py3-none-any.whl"      }}}to work but terraform doesnt recognize "volum...

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PurpleViolin
New Contributor III
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This workedresource "databricks_cluster_policy" "cluster_policy" {  name = var.policy_name  libraries {        whl = "/Volumes/bronze/config/python.wheel-1.0.3-9-py3-none-any.whl"      }}

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MisterT
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Cannot get tracing to work on genai app deployed on databricks

Hi, I have a gradio app that is deployed on databricks. The app is coming from this example  provided by databricks. The app works fine, but when I want to add tracing I cannot get it to work. I keep getting the errormlflow.exceptions.MlflowException...

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NandiniN
Databricks Employee
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Hi @MisterT ,  In our docs, it is mentioned we use MLflow 3(major upgrade) with GenAI monitoring enabled. Each agent endpoint is assigned an MLflow experiment, and log agent traces from the endpoint to that experiment in real-time. Internally an  MLF...

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Andreyai
by New Contributor II
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Ai Query Prompt Token and Completition token

HiI would like to know how can I get the Completition token and Prompt token quantity when using Ai_Query?Thanks

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Khaja_Zaffer
Contributor III
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Hello @Andreyai good day!!For AI_queries, we have documentation from databricks. : https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/sql/language-manual/functions/ai_query I am 100% sure you will get better insights from the documentations. But I have something for...

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agilecoach360
by New Contributor II
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2025 Data + AI World Tour Atlanta

Attending how to build Intelligent Agents at Databricks Data+AI World Tour 2025#Databricks #Data+AI #DatabricksWorldTour

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Advika
Community Manager
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Great to hear, @agilecoach360! Please share your learnings and experience from the event with the Community, it would be really valuable for everyone. Looking forward to your insights.

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drag7ter
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Parameters in dashboards data section passing via asset bundles

A new functionality allows deploy dashboards with a asset bundles. Here is an example :# This is the contents of the resulting baby_gender_by_county.dashboard.yml file. resources: dashboards: baby_gender_by_county: display_name: "Baby gen...

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Karola_de_Groot
New Contributor III
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I did however just found out there is parameterization possible.. dont know yet how to incorporate it into asset bundle deploy but at least i have a first step. You can use SELECT * FROM IDENTIFIER(:catalog || '.' || :schema || '.' || :table)Or hardc...

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matte_kapa_bul
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I made an AI assistant for Databricks docs, let me know what you think!

Hello members of the Databricks community!I built this Ask AI chatbot/widget where I gave a custom LLM access to some of Databricks' docs to help answer technical questions for people using Databricks. I tried it on a couple of questions that resembl...

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WiliamRosa
Contributor III
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Hi @matte_kapa_bul , how are you doing?First of all, congratulations on the initiative. I’ve tried to do something similar myself, and it’s very useful for locating documentation, but it doesn’t end up being very effective in solving some issues repo...

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