Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #16

- - Certifications
- - Learning Paths
- - Databricks Product Tours
- - Get Started Guides

- - Get Started Resources
- - Events
- - Support FAQs
- - Technical Blog
- - Community Articles
- - Announcements
- - DatabricksTV
- - Product Platform Updates

- - Private Groups
  - Princeton Life Sciences Databricks User Group
- - Skills@Scale

- - Databricks Community Champions
- - Khoros Community Forums Support (Not for Databricks Product Questions)
- - Databricks Community Code of Conduct

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For many data engineers who love PySpark, the most significant improvement of 2025 was the addition of merge to the dataframe API, so no more Delta library or SQL is needed to perform MERGE. p.s. I still prefer SQL MERGE inside spark.sql()