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Hubert-Dudek
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IP functions

A dozen nice new IP functions have been added to Databricks SQL. #databricks more news https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-ttl-8416bdccf627

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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User home volume

Personal network drive is now in Unity Catalog. #databricks more news https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-ttl-8416bdccf62

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protmaks
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Databricks Community Articles in Medium

Please follow https://medium.com/databrickscommunity for the best articles about Databricks.We welcome contributions from anyone in the Databricks community. Submit your first article as a guest (follow us, and in the article menu, choose “submit to ...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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TTL

In the CREATE or ALTER statement, we can specify that rows will be automatically deleted after a number of days based on the date difference between the current date and the value from the given field more news https://medium.com/@databrickster/datab...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Time data type

The new data type TIME in Spark SQL represents a time value with fields hour, minute, second, and up to microseconds. All operations over the type are performed without taking any time zone into account. more news https://medium.com/@databrickster/da...

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Abiola-David
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Databricks Genie: Managing Budgets and Cost Controls

As AI-powered analytics becomes more embedded in everyday decision-making, one challenge continues to surface: balancing innovation with cost control.That's why the new Genie budgeting capabilities from Databricks are a welcome addition. With Genie m...

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ush73
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SELECT  u.usage_date,  u.identity_metadata.run_as,  u.usage_metadata.genie.surface,  SUM(u.usage_quantity) AS total_dbus,  SUM(u.usage_quantity * lp.pricing.effective_list.default) AS total_costFROM system.billing.usage uJOIN system.billing.list_pric...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Users and Admin groups

The system users group will no longer give default entitlements. It is the first step needed to develop more sophisticated entitlement rules in databricks.https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-ttl-8416bdccf627

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Hubert-Dudek
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runtime CI/CD

Not only is code CI/CD possible, but runtime CI/CD is now possible thanks to #databricks docker. more about it: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-docker-from-runtime-ci-cd-to-compliance-1479cf6cdf8d https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-...

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julius_ranklab
New Contributor III
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Why would we want to use docker?Wouldn't that just add unnecessary complexity? 

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Hubert-Dudek
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not everything is in the cloud

It’s great to see that we have ZeroBus, which can push events from on-premise to the cloud. Now it’s joined by on-premises OpenSharing. This is optimal for organizations that can’t move everything to the cloud or simply don’t want to. #databricks htt...

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Hubert-Dudek
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A wave of new Lakeflow Connect connectors

There are so many new connectors that I stopped counting them and mentioned it in the news. Every week, there is something new. If you just need to ingest data into Databricks from a cloud source, always check the release page, as not everything is e...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Resilience, cross-region, and cross-cloud

None of the new features matters if your platform goes down when a region or cloud has an outage. Cross-region and cross-cloud recovery is non-negotiable. This is key for any platform hosting applications, as it enables the components mentioned above...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Reverse ETL

As the Lakehouse becomes your primary data and application platform and everything is consolidated there, you will occasionally need to push that data outwards. For example, to run a marketing campaign in Google Ads. #databricks #DataAISummit https:/...

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Hubert-Dudek
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Ontology

Once you have that single platform holding all your company data, you need a knowledge graph, ideally created automatically, to build a context layer on top of it. Genie Ontology. #databricks #DataAISummit https://databrickster.medium.com/my-favorite...

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Abiola-David
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Databricks AI Search

Heads up! Databricks AI Search has replaced Vector Search. The rebranding reflects a shift in focus from embeddings to a more flexible and versatile search solution that supports hybrid keyword-similarity search and full-text keyword search. This cha...

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