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AmitDECopilot
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Resolved! How would you design a Spark pipeline to process billions of records efficiently?

Interview Question:Many people start with the row count.I would start with the architecture.Billions of records are not new in enterprise data engineering. The real challenge is designing a pipeline that runs predictably, efficiently, and within SLA....

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savlahanish27
Databricks Partner
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Fair point - if it's genuinely append-only with no corrections, you're right, you're already touching the minimum amount of data each run. So, the problem really is what you originally said: how do you process a genuinely huge incoming batch efficien...

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Ashwin_DSA
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Managed vs External Storage in Unity Catalog on Azure: Where Should Your Data Live?

  I'm currently working with a banking customer migrating from Hive Metastore to Unity Catalog. While planning their catalog layout, one of their platform engineers asked the question that prompted this post: for their schemas and volumes, should th...

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savlahanish27
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Hi Ashwin,Really clean write-up - the schema override demo with the actual DESCRIBE DETAIL output is what makes it click. Most posts on this topic stop at "here's the theory," this one actually shows it happening.Something similar came up on a SAP HA...

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AngelShrestha
by Databricks Partner
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Getting Certified as a Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate: Key Takeaways and Insights

I just earned my Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate Certification, and in this post, I’m sharing the key tips, resources, and including what confused me, what actually worked, and the traps I nearly fell into. Why I Took This ExamI...

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abhilash3
New Contributor II
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Could you please add the resources here for prep?

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sagarpgowda7777
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MCP on Databricks

Here’s What Nobody Tells You.A hands-on look at Genie MCP and DBSQL MCP — what works, what doesn’t, and when to skip MCP entirely.Let me start with something most MCP content skips. MCP servers don’t just expose tools. They expose three things — tool...

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emma_s
by Databricks Employee
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Create an MCP for Azure DevOps To Use With Genie Code

Overview Prompted by a customer question, I wanted to see what was possible in terms of MCP integration into Genie Code, in order to try this out I decided to look at Azure Dev Ops, as it's a common workflow to want to see your tickets alongside the ...

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HectorOviedoM
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Hi Emma how are you? is there any solution to make this agent avaliable for multiple users? the main restriction is that the path will be linked to a single user/service princpal.thanks!

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Ashwin_DSA
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Reading Spark UI: A Repeatable Guide to Finding Performance Bottlenecks

A question came up in the community recently that I thought deserved more than a short answer. The question was around how to build a reliable investigation sequence for slow Spark jobs, specifically when symptoms overlap. A long-running stage with ...

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srinivasu_nalla
New Contributor II
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Thanks for this! Very insightful and detailed. Your sequence for diagnosing slow Spark jobs when symptoms overlap is exactly what I needed. Bookmarked this for my team.

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Brahmareddy
by Esteemed Contributor II
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A small song for the Databricks Community

One Question Can Light the SparkMy Databricks journey started in 2022 with simple interest, curiosity, and a dream to learn more.At that time, I was just trying to understand the platform, follow the updates, learn from others, and slowly build my co...

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Advika
Community Manager
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My turn!  (couldn't let this disappear from the homepage that quickly ).This one is officially going down in Community history now, @Brahmareddy .

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Ashwin_DSA
by Databricks Employee
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Databricks Multi-Table Transactions - Part 1

If you've ever worked on an insurance data warehouse, or really any warehouse where data arrives from different systems at different times, you know the pain of keeping things in sync. I spent years building data warehouses for a property and casual...

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antoalphi_db
Databricks Partner
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I know I'm reading this a bit late, but it's absolutely worth the read. Excellent write-up!Please share link for part-2

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