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tarunnagar
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How to Optimize Data Pipeline Development on Databricks for Large-Scale Workloads?

Hi everyone,I’m working on building and optimizing data pipelines in Databricks, especially for large-scale workloads, and I want to learn from others who have hands-on experience with performance tuning, architecture decisions, and best practices.I’...

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jameswood32
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Optimizing Databricks pipelines for large-scale workloads mostly comes down to smart architecture + efficient Spark practices.Key tips from real-world users:Use Delta Lake – for ACID transactions, incremental updates, and schema enforcement.Partition...

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AswinGovindan77
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Databricks community group in Kerala

  Calling All Data Enthusiasts in Kerala! Hey everyone,I'm excited about the idea of launching a Databricks Community Group here in Kerala! This group would be a hub for learning, sharing knowledge, and networking among data enthusiasts, analysts, a...

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sreekufeg
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Great initiative! It's good to see the tech community growing here. I’m representing Fegno Technologies, a web and mobile app development company in Kochi. We are always keen to stay updated on the latest data engineering trends and cloud platforms.

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Hubert-Dudek
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Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #4

With the new ALTER SET, it is really easy to migrate (copy/move) tables. Quite awesome also when you need to make an initial load and have an old system under Lakehouse Federation (foreign tables).

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Adil
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Find value in any column in a table

Hi,I'm not sure if this is a possible scenario, but is there, by any chance a way to query all the columns of a table for searching a value? Explanation: I want to search for a specific value in all the columns of a databricks table. I don't know whi...

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Hubert-Dudek
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bianca_unifeye
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Databricks Advent Calendar Edition

Santa is coming to Lakehouse Town! From now until Christmas, I’ll be your guide on a Databricks journey – sharing one powerful Databricks feature every single day. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bianca-stratulat_databricks-lakehouse-dataengineering-a...

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laeforceable
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How to build a chatbot in Databricks for ad‑hoc analytics questions?

Hi everyone,I’m exploring the idea of creating a chatbot within Databricks that can handle ad‑hoc business analytics queries. For example, I’d like users to be able to ask questions such as:“How many sales did we have in 2025?”“Which products had the...

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BaluCreative
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Hi @laeforceable , if you have data in databricks platform then you can use Genie Room Capability to ask questions related to data..

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vijaypodili
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Resolved! Azure databrics Learning tutorials ADB+SQL,ADB+PYSPARK,ADB+PYTHON

Suggest me the best learning tutorials of Azure databricks with the combinations of pyspark,python,sql is the any learning web based tutorials from Databricks  suggest me the best one from scratch to advanced

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @vijaypodili ,I can recommend Data Engineering Learning Path on Databricks Academy:https://customer-academy.databricks.com/On Udemy, there's an excellent course that covers all the important aspects of working with Databricks on a daily basis:Data...

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EllieFarrell
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Resolved! Unexpected Script Execution Differences on databricks.com vs Mobile-Triggered Runtimes

I’m noticing some unusual inconsistencies in how scripts execute on databricks.com compared to when the same workflow is triggered through a mobile-based API. On Databricks, the script runs perfectly when executed directly inside a cluster notebook. ...

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bianca_unifeye
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Hi Ellie,What you’re seeing is actually quite common , the same script can behave slightly differently when: run interactively in a notebook on a cluster, vsrun as a job / via API trigger (or from a mobile wrapper hitting that API). It’s usually not ...

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tts
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Resolved! Programatic selection of serverless compute for notebooks environment version

Hello,I have a case where I am executing notebooks from an external system using databricks api /api/2.2/jobs/runs/submit. This has always been non problematic with the job compute, but due to the quite recent serverless for notebooks support being i...

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toby_chu
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Not so sure about the general but in eu-west-3, we could specify the serverless environment version using DAB using the `environments` block and `spec` params:resources: jobs: pipeline: name: "[${bundle.target}]pipeline" webhook_not...

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Phani1
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informatica jobs from data bricks

Hi TeamHow can we call informatica jobs from data bricks? could you please suggest on this.Regards,Phanindra

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Raman_Unifeye
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unsure how above answer helps here @Phani1 - The only way I could think of is - call Informatica jobs (specifically Informatica Cloud Data Integration (CDI) mappings or tasks) from Databricks by leveraging REST APIs.Direct API - Trigger an Informatic...

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anabel0
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Databricks Java SDK retrieving job task values

Greetings,I have a Job that consists of notebook tasks running python code.Some of the task set task values using dbutils.jobs.taskValues.set(key=key, value=value)as described here How do I retrieve those task values using Databricks Java SDK v0.69.0...

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stbjelcevic
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Unfortunately you can’t read dbutils.jobs.taskValues directly via the Java SDK. But you could return a JSON payload via dbutils.notebook.exit and read it with getRunOutput. Databricks exposes the notebook “exit” result through Jobs GetRunOutput, then...

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AntonisCh
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Resolved! Synchronising metadata (e.g., tags) across schemas under Unity Catalog (Azure)

Hello all,I hope you are doing great!I want to synchronise metadata (e.g., description, comments, tags) across schemas under the Unity Catalog (e.g., test.dev, test.uat). For example, under the schema test.dev, there is a sales table with multiple co...

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AntonisCh
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It's completely fine, and I do understand. Thank you for your time and effort here! 

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Ritesh-Dhumne
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Resolved! Databricks Scenarios

I’m a data engineer with some experience in Databricks. I’m looking for real-life scenarios that are commonly encountered by data engineers. Could you also provide details on how to implement these scenarios?

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Raman_Unifeye
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Generic topic. Here are few latest article to help you on thishttps://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-guides/getting-started-with-databricks-build-a-simple-lakehouse/tac-p/139492#M29https://community.databricks.com/t5/announcements/big-book-o...

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ShaneCorn
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What are the best ways to implement transcription in podcast apps?

I am starting this discussion for everyone who can answer my query.

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nayan_wylde
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1. Use Speech-to-Text Models via MLflowIntegrate open-source models like OpenAI Whisper, Hugging Face Wav2Vec2, or AssemblyAI API.Log the model in MLflow for versioning and reproducibility.Deploy as a Databricks Model Serving endpoint for real-time t...

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