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Peter_Theil
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Resolved! Databricks partner journey for small firms

Hello,We are a team of 5 ( DE/ Architects ) exploring the idea of starting a small consulting company focused on Databricks as a SI partner and wanted to learn from others who have gone through the partnership journey.I would love to understand how t...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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If I’m being completely honest, I haven’t seen any. As you can imagine, partner organizations tend to keep things pretty close to the vest for a variety of reasons. That said, once a new partner is officially enrolled, they are granted access to an e...

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Poorva21
by Contributor II
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How realistic is truly end-to-end LLMOps on Databricks?

Databricks is positioning the platform as a full stack for LLM development — from data ingestion → feature/embedding pipelines → fine-tuning (Mosaic AI) → evaluation → deployment (Model Serving) → monitoring (Lakehouse Monitoring).I’m curious about r...

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Poorva21
Contributor II
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Thank You @Gecofer for taking the time to share such a clear, experience-backed breakdown of where Databricks shines and where real-world LLM Ops architectures still need supporting components. Your explanation was incredibly practical and resonates ...

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DBXDeveloper111
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Resolved! Software engineering in data bricks

I'm a software engineer and a bit new to databricks.  My goal is to create a model serving endpoint, that interfaces with several ML models. Traditionally this would look like:API--> Service --> DataNow using databricks, my understanding is that it w...

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Hubert-Dudek
Databricks MVP
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Just register model and then deploy service endpoint to serve this model.

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bianca_unifeye
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Webinar: From PoC to Production: Delivering with Confidence with Databricks

  Our final webinar of December is here and we are closing the year with a powerhouse session!SpeakersAs many organisations still get stuck in the PoC phase, we’re bringing clarity, structure, and real delivery practices to help teams move from promi...

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Advika
Community Manager
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Appreciate you sharing this with the community, @bianca_unifeye!

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tarunnagar
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Using Databricks for Real-Time App Data

I’m exploring how to handle real-time data for an application and I keep seeing Databricks recommended as a strong option — especially with its support for streaming pipelines, Delta Live Tables, and integrations with various event sources. That said...

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Suheb
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Databricks is very effective for real-time app data because it supports streaming data processing using Apache Spark and Delta Lake. It helps handle large data volumes, provides low-latency analytics, and makes it easier to build scalable event-drive...

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bharathjs
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Alter table to add/update multiple column comments

I was wondering if there's a way to alter table and add/update comments for multiple columns at once using SQL or API calls. For instance -  ALTER TABLE <table_name> CHANGE COLUMN <col1> COMMENT '<comment1>',CHANGE COLUMN <col2> COMMENT 'comment2' ; ...

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dxwell
New Contributor II
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The correct SQL syntax for this is:ALTER TABLE your_table_name ALTER COLUMN col1 COMMENT 'comment1', col2 COMMENT 'comment2', col3 COMMENT 'comment3'; 

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tarunnagar
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How to Connect Databricks with Web and Mobile Apps

Hi everyone,I’m exploring ways to leverage Databricks for building data-driven web and mobile applications and wanted to get some insights from this community. Databricks is great for processing large datasets, running analytics, and building machine...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Check Databricks Apps - you pass databricks resources and then use databricks-sdk to interact with them.

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boitumelodikoko
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Data Engineering Lessons

Getting into the data space can feel overwhelming, with so many tools, terms, and technologies. But after years inExpect failure. Design for it.Jobs will fail. The data will be late. Build systems that can recover gracefully, and continually monitor ...

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Gecofer
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Hi @boitumelodikoko A few more principles I always share with people entering the data space:Observability is non-negotiable.If you can’t see what your pipelines are doing, you can’t fix what breaks.Good logging, metrics, and alerts save countless ho...

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n1399
by New Contributor II
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On Demand Pool Configuration & Policy definition

I'm using Job cluster and created compute policies for library management and now I'm trying to use pools in databricks. I'm getting error like this : Cluster validation error: Validation failed for azure_attributes.spot_bid_max_price from pool, the ...

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Poorva21
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This error occurs because instance pools require a concrete spot bid max price value, even if the cluster policy marks it as unlimited. Set an explicit value (e.g., 100) directly in the instance pool configuration, or switch the pool to on-demand nod...

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mrstevegross
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How to resolve "cannot import name 'Iterable' from 'collections'" error?

I'm running a DBR/Spark job using a container. I've set docker_image.url to `docker.io/databricksruntime/standard:13.3-LTS`, as well as the Spark env var `DATABRICKS_RUNTIME_VERSION=13.3`. At runtime, however, I'm encountering this error: ImportError...

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Poorva21
Contributor II
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Go to Compute → Your Cluster / Job ComputeChange Databricks Runtime to:Databricks Runtime 13.3 LTSRe-run your job with the same container.

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steveKris
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Resolved! Extract all users from Databricks Groups

Hey everyone,we are trying to get an overview of all users that we have in our databricks groups. We have tried to do so with the REST API as well as the SQL-queries (with normal developer accounts as well as workspace administrator accounts). The pr...

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Poorva21
Contributor II
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Use the Databricks SQL system users tableSELECT * FROM system.usersOnly shows fully provisioned users Users pending invitation may not appear.

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Gokkul007
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How to create a lakebase table ?

Hi databricks community, I want to create a lakebase table that is synced with the delta table . So whenever the delta table is updated the changes should be available in lakebase table.  Now I want to create a databricks streamlit application and ma...

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Poorva21
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Yes, it’s possible to have a Lakehouse table synced with a Delta table in Unity Catalog. You have a few options:Direct read: Register the Delta table in Unity Catalog and query it directly from your Streamlit app.Delta Live Tables (DLT): Create a DLT...

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gokkul
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Help me with the databricks streamlit application related doubt

Hi Databricks community ,Hi I have a doubt regarding databricks streamlit application . I have a databricks streamlit application that takes input values from the user through streamlit UI. Now I want to store these input values in a delta table in U...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @gokkul ,Your app service principal needs to have a proper permission to write to UC table. You also need to use python databricks sdk to interact with UC object (i.e read/save a table).You can get some inspiration from following databricks cookbo...

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tarunnagar
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Resolved! 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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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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