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Anubhav2603
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DLT Pipeline Design

I am new to DLT and trying to understand the process. My bronze table will receive incremental data from SAP in real time. In my bronze table, we are not maintaining any history and any data older than 2 weeks will be deleted. This data from bronze w...

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alexajames
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The scenario you mentioned can be efficiently managed using a Delta Live Table (DLT) combined with a CDC (Change Data Capture) flow. From what I understand, the bronze table is always in append mode. Check out the link below for more details. Hope th...

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MR_DHC
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Execute Immediate not working to fetch table name based on year

 I am trying to pass the year as argument so it can be used in the table name. Ex: there are tables like Claims_total_2021 , Claims_total_2022 and so on till 2025. Now I want to pass the year in parameter , say 2024 and it must fetch the table Claims...

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Sidhant07
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Hi, I believe the solution shared by Martison would fix this issue. In Databricks SQL, when using EXECUTE IMMEDIATE, the SQL string must be a single variable or single string literal, not an inline expression using string concatenation ('...' || clai...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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Resolved! Databricks Community Innovators - Program

Hi, I'd like to know what's happened with the Databricks Community innovators program? https://community.databricks.com/t5/databricks-community-innovators/bg-p/databricks-community-news-members Is this still alive? I've applied and emailed: databrick...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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Hi Mandy! Thanks for the introduction and update. I'm really looking forward to being a part of everything moving forward. Just echoing what @TheOC mentioned above, I'm happy to help/assist in whatever way I can.Absolutely buzzing based off the info ...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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Databricks Monthly Spotlight - Discontinued?

Hi, I'm curious what's happened with the Databricks monthly spotlight? https://community.databricks.com/t5/databricks-community-innovators/bg-p/databricks-community-news-members I can there hasn't been anyone in the spotlight since April 2025. Has th...

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TheOC
Databricks Partner
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Hi all,I just wanted to jump in this thread to say how motivating this kind of conversation is. It's great that we've got passion from users and Databricks employees alike to ensure integrity in the Community - it's really reassuring as someone start...

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SinchBhat
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Python

Guys am not able to access pyspark in free edition somebody help me.

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BS_THE_ANALYST
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@szymon_dybczak it may be that @SinchBhat has the notebook set to SQL as the default language ?Could also, by mistake, be using the SQL editor.@SinchBhat could you provide some screenshots of what your UI looks like please. It'll help to resolve the ...

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joypillai
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Resolved! Not able to login Databricks

I am trying to login in databricks but when I enter the OTP it says something went wrong

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szymon_dybczak
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HI @joypillai ,You want to login to databricks free edition? Could you provide screenshot?

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Sifflet
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Best practices for reducing noise in data quality monitoring?

Hi all,We’ve been improving our data quality monitoring for several pipelines, but we keep running into the same problem — too many alerts, most of which aren’t actionable. Over time, it becomes harder to trust them.Right now, we’re doing:Freshness c...

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WiliamRosa
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Hi @Sifflet, This is genuinely complex—and while you mentioned alerting and monitoring, in my experience the biggest lever to reduce noise is to treat problems at the source (i.e., in the transformation layer). Make the transformations enforce the co...

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Anubhav2603
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DLT Pipeline

I am working on DLT pipeline and have one question. As explained on this page (https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dlt/tutorial-pipelines?language=Python), we will end up creating 3 tables i.e. customer_cdc_bronze, customer_cdc_clean and customer. Thi...

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nayan_wylde
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With this optimized approach, I would suggest creating view for Clean table:1. Bronze Table: Raw CDC data (full storage)2. Clean View: No physical storage - computed on-demand3. Silver Table: Final processed data with SCD2 historyResult: ~67% storage...

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Mihai_Cog
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Issue with Visual Studio Code Databricks extension

Hello,I successfully installed the extension and connected it to my databricks account. But when I try to select the repo (which already exists under repos in my databricks repo account) for syncing , I don't see it.I use Azure Devops (Git repo) as s...

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LearningRate
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I installed VS code 2 (strange name and version from MS) then i see all the option .... thanks just if someone also facing this issue

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prakashhinduja2
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Prakash Hinduja (Geneva) How fix SQL errors like INVALID_IDENTIFIER when running workflows?

I am Prakash Hinduja, a global financial strategist with deep roots in India and a current base in Geneva Switzerland (Swiss).I have been running into SQL errors like INVALID_IDENTIFIER when executing workflows in Databricks. I’ve checked for typos a...

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Khaja_Zaffer
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Hello @prakashhinduja2 Are you getting error with this code? SQLSTATE: 42602Does your code has any Unquoted identifiers?

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smanblicks
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Resolved! Not able to create Databriks Compute in Central US

I Created my databricks account in Central US and I am not able to create Compute . So  I need help to create Compute.

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brycejune
New Contributor III
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If everything looks fine, opening a support ticket with Databricks or your cloud provider (Azure/AWS) would be the quickest way to resolve this and get your compute set up.

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momo0101
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Resolved! Databricks Claude Access Error - Permission Denied

I'm using databricks-claude-sonnet-3.7 through Azure Databricks, and it was working until yesterday, but when I accessed it now, I got this error: Error: 403 {"error_code":"PERMISSION_DENIED","message":"PERMISSION_DENIED: Endpoint databricks-claude-s...

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momo0101
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@szymon_dybczak Thank you! I'll wait a couple days and try again. Much appreciated!

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varshanagarajan
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Pandas API on Spark creates huge query plans

Hello,I have a piece of code written in Pyspark and Pandas API on Spark. On comparing the query plans, I see Pandas API on Spark creates huge query plans whereas Pyspark plan is a tiny one. Furthermore, with Pandas API on spark, we see a lot of incon...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
Databricks Partner
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@FRB1984 could you provide some examples? I'm curious. My first thoughts would be around the shuffling. Check this out: https://spark.apache.org/docs/3.5.4/api/python/user_guide/pandas_on_spark/best_practices.html . There's an argument to be made abo...

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sumner-williams
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Resolved! Table Counts

Hello,My company loads a lot of tables into a databricks schema. I would like to build a dashboard on what has been loaded, but SQL commands like select * from information_schema do not work. Instead we have SHOW TABLES {FROM} LIKE {}; And that fails...

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BS_THE_ANALYST
Databricks Partner
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Just trying to rule out some of the lower-hanging stuff. When you run your SQL statements i.e.  select * from information_schemaAre you using the correct namespace syntax i.e. {catalog_here}.information_schemaAre you using Unity Catalog?Example of th...

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DataDp
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What permissions are needed to fix [INSUFFICIENT_PERMISSIONS] User does not have permission toSELECT

 Hi,I am getting the following error in Databricks when running a SELECT query:  [INSUFFICIENT_PERMISSIONS] Insufficient privileges: User does not have permission SELECT on any file. SQLSTATE: 42501Context:Environment: Unity Catalog enabledI am tryin...

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WiliamRosa
Databricks Partner
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If you’re getting an “Insufficient Permissions” error in Databricks, it usually means your user is missing one or more privileges required for the action you’re trying to perform. In Unity Catalog, for example, querying a view in dedicated compute mo...

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