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Catalog Managed Tables
Managed Tables, External Tables, Foreign Tables and... .. Catalog Managed Tables. If you are databricks user, you need to know why they are the best of all! https://databrickster.medium.com/catalog-commits-make-your-managed-delta-layer-safer-and-more...
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If UC is now the source of truth for the latest version (not the delta_log ), what happens to a tool that reads the log directly? Does it risk seeing stale state, since it's not coordinating through the catalog?
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Why Databricks Catalog Commits is a Game-Changer for Lakehouse Governance and Transactions
As organizations continue to scale their data platforms, managing consistency, governance, and transactional integrity across multiple datasets has become increasingly challenging. While Delta Lake has long provided robust ACID transactions at the ta...
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Automate Resource Creation using Databricks SDK for Python in VS Code
In this video, I'm going to show you how to automate resource creation in Azure Databricks using the Databricks SDK for Python. If you've ever found yourself manually creating catalogs, schemas, and volumes in the Databricks UI repeatedly, this video...
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Cut our Databricks Apps costs by 76% with two scheduled jobs (start/stop)
Databricks Apps run 24/7 with no native scale-to-zero. ~$350/mo per app (720 hrs), but internal dashboards/admin tools only get used a few hours/day. You pay for 100%, use ~15%.We had a test app run idle for 69 days before anyone noticed. ~$800 waste...
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Databricks Genie Pricing
Seems there is so much confusion on the upcoming Genie pricing.Databricks Genie pricing, made simple:Free monthly usage stays Only usage beyond it is billed (DBUs)Paid starts July 6, 2026Admins set budgets to cap spendGenie did NOT become paid-only. ...
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auto scope tokens
If you don’t know which permissions (scopes) to add to the access token (since some processes can require many scopes), just set access tokens to auto-scoping, and after 30 days, it will set the required scope based on usage during the first 30 days....
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Claude Mythos & Databricks LakeWatch
Databricks LakeWatch- Security for the Agentic Era:What is Lakewatch?Lakewatch is a new security product, essentially a comprehensive security camera system for your entire company’s computer systems, powered by AI.Two significant developments occurr...
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Databricks Genie vs Databricks Genie Code
Databricks Genie vs Databricks Genie Code – What's the Difference?Many people assume Genie and Genie Code are the same, but they are designed for completely different audiences and use cases.GenieWho it’s for: All employees, from Marketing Managers t...
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Embed a Databricks Genie space in an External Website or Application
You can now embed a Databricks Genie Space directly into an external website or application.What does this mean?Instead of asking your business users to log into Databricks every time they want to query data, you can bring Genie to them right inside ...
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UI sync back to DABs
If you deploy a bundle from the UI in development mode (source-linked deployment) and edit it in the UI, changes are now propagated to the files. Really useful for jobs and dashboards. For jobs, of course, please always review in GIT as results in so...
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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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Catalog Commits are here, and they are bringing to databricks and UC
Catalog Commits are here, and they are bringing to databricks and UC: - concurrency control, because Unity Catalog coordinates the winning commit- governance, because supported clients resolve table state through Unity Catalog- lays the foundation fo...
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Apps and Lakebase scaling
Lakebase can scale up more, and Apps are now getting horizontal scaling. Seems like #databricks is the best place to run your app now, any app. https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-cli-v-1-0-0-ai-tools-last-updated-25th-may-767ef39abe8a
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Databricks Introduces Column Popularity in Unity Catalog: A Smarter Way to Understand Data Usage
Databricks continues to enhance data governance and observability with the introduction of Column Popularity in Unity Catalog's Catalog Explorer. This new capability provides data teams with visibility into which columns are queried most frequently a...
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How to enable a custom URL in Azure Databricks?
Azure Databricks now allows organisations to configure a custom URL at the account level, providing a unified and branded access point for all users.Instead of navigating multiple workspace-specific URLs, users can log in once using a single custom U...
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The article on Medium includes a diagram that involves Azure Application Gateway, but Databricks' own documentation seems to suggest a quite different setup:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/admin/account-settings/custom-urlAlso, it'...
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