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Database Branching in Postgres: Git-Style Workflows with Databricks Lakebase
Earlier this week, Databricks shared a deep dive into Lakebase Postgres database branching, a “Git‑style” way to work with your databases, meaning you can now create instant, isolated Postgres environments in seconds, without copying all the data or ...
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Error on Lakebase Postgres Autoscaling Table Tab
I can't view my lakebase postgres autoscaling project's table tab.The error id is: 3760588e08b843c5a4aebac770f8e967
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@ctgchris - Reach out to the support team or raise a ticket.
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"Unknown Error" when running simple select query in Lakebase SQL Editor
Hello! I am experiencing a confusing issue with LakeBase. I created a new project and I tried to run the example query provided in the SQL Editor to create a first table. Unfortunately, the query failed with "Unknown Error" and not further explanatio...
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Hi @Sbolo ,Which Lakebase are you using? Provisioned or Autoscaling? And since you also got following error:"Public access is not allowed for workspace: <id here>"I think it can be a networking issue. Try to create private endpoints and check if this...
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My First Impressions of Databricks Lakebase
Hi everyone,I recently started exploring Lakebase on Databricks, and I wanted to share a few thoughts from my early experience.What I like most so far is how it simplifies things. Instead of dealing with multiple tools for storage, processing, and AI...
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@Brahmareddy Good to hear, definitely going to try now.
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Ending the Developer Struggle: The Future of Fast App Development - Virtual Event (May 5–7)
Developers want to write code, not provision databases. Learn how to create and deploy apps directly on the Databricks Platform. Join us on May 5-7. In this webinar, code comes first. Watch experts from Databricks and Cursor demonstrate how to get ...
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How agentic software development will change databases
Software development is shifting from a slow, linear process to a rapid, evolutionary one driven by AI agents. Instead of building a single application over time, developers and agents now generate, test, and iterate on multiple versions in parallel...
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Controlling Agent access to Tools and Tool access to Data Operations
I am building an agentic workflow. This is a multi agent workflow - Plan, Reason, Act and Synthesize. Each agent has its own access to tools to take ACTIONS on data. Some of these agents are READ only, some can WRITE/UPDATEAll data is resident withi...
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Building a GraphQL API on Lakebase
Summary One API, every client: Instead of building separate endpoints for each app or partner, GraphQL lets every consumer ask for exactly the data it needs — but typically requires a lot of backend plumbing.No backend required: A built-in Postgres e...
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A New Era of Databases: Lakebase
Databases have powered software for decades, but their underlying architecture hasn’t kept pace with modern application needs—especially in the era of AI and rapid development. Lakebase introduces a new approach by separating compute from storage an...
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Lakebase as the Operational Data Store: Bringing Back the Tactical Data Layer
Summary Why systems catering to tactical, operational decision-making need to be different from traditional OLTP and OLAPHow a Lakebase-centric architecture for ODS solves this needWhat business use-cases gain value from an ODS build on top of Lakeba...
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Calling a Lakebase project API directly from an web frontend
Today we have an web frontend and custom API that we call from the frontend. I can see Lakebase projects support an API and SQL over REST. And we are considering whether skipping the custom API and calling the Lakebase API directly. However I see som...
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Hi @Sega2, I don't there are many patterns or approaches published widely yet. In general, though, for production web apps, you may want to consider something like frontend --> thin backend --> Lakebase rather than calling Lakebase Data API directly ...
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Resolved! Lakebase branches and permissions to SQL editor
Our admin created a project for lakebase branching. My user has "Can manage" permissions. I can create branches etc, however when I run something in the SQL editor i get following error:"ERROR: permission denied for schema public (SQLSTATE 42501)CREA...
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Greetings @Sega2 , I did some digging and here is what I found. Your screenshot (thanks for sharing, it was helpful) is showing a user running a Postgres CREATE TABLE statement in the Lakebase SQL Editor and hitting this error: In Lakebase, there ar...
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Resolved! Promoting changes from dev branch to production
I am playing with branches in lakebase. I have created a dev under prod, applied som changes. How do you merge/promote the dev into prod? Have not found any things in the UI?Thanks, Thomas
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Hi @Sega2, I can help with this. Welcome to Lakebase branching. As the earlier reply mentioned, Lakebase branches use copy-on-write technology rather than Git-style merging, so the workflow for promoting changes is a bit different from what you might...
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Lakebase Branching Meets Docker: The Migration Safety Net I Wish I Had Years Ago
Lakebase Branching Meets Docker: The Migration Safety Net I Wish I Had Years Ago Before I became a Solutions Architect at Databricks, I was a backend software engineer and for a few years of my past life, I found myself BFF's with our BFF(backend-for...
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How to access a delta table in UC from lakebase postgres ?
Hi DB Community ,Is there any way to access/write to delta table in UC from lakebase postgres ? There's a way using "Sync Table" - but it is recommended only to read data from Sync Table . Databricks recommends against writing to sync table . Or else...
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Hi @gokkul, There are a few different patterns here depending on which direction you need data to flow. Let me break them down. READING DELTA/UC DATA FROM LAKEBASE (UC to Postgres) Synced tables are the primary mechanism for this. They automatically ...
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