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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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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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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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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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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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Check Databricks Apps - you pass databricks resources and then use databricks-sdk to interact with them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Use the Databricks SQL system users tableSELECT * FROM system.usersOnly shows fully provisioned users Users pending invitation may not appear.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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