Hi community I have the honour of being selected as a Databricks MVP 2026.Before sharing my first article as an MVP, I wanted to briefly introduce myself and the lens I bring to the Databricks ecosystem.My focus has always been on translating deep te...
You might not have encountered time zones in Databricks yet. I recommend reading this article (Link to the full text) it will save you from unnecessary problems. There's also an infographic below that you might find useful.
Complete Article Link:https://nidhig631.medium.com/one-decision-that-shapes-your-databricks-platform-workspace-type-bc7f606446fc#databricks
more to come there
Read Complete Articles:https://medium.com/@nidhig631/did-you-notice-this-in-databricks-a-new-way-to-govern-connect-create-and-share-9bdbc22aebb1#databricks #MVP Articles
Significant change, but in the beginning I didn't notice as my brain automatically adjusted
Temp Tables Are Here, and They’re Going to Change How You Use SQL #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/temp-tables-are-here-and-theyre-going-to-change-how-you-use-sql-eb2ed7aeb0de https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/temp-tables-databricks-sql-wareh...
AI-Assisted GenAI Development on Databricks: Building an End-to-End Sentiment ClassifierI just published a new blog as part of my ongoing series on AI-assisted GenAI development using the Databricks Free Edition.In this post, I walk through an end-to...
New ChatGpt models optimized for coding are available in databricks. Look in the playground or in ai schema in the system catalog #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-3-12-january-2026-to-18-january-2026-5d87e517fb...
Pattern I see in most AI projects: teams excitedly prototype a new AI assistant, impress stakeholders in a demo, then hit a wall trying to get it production-ready. #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/95-of-genai-projects-fail-how-to-become...
For some Lakeflow connectors, we can pass a filter to limit which rows are loaded. It solves one big problem: initial, full load from tools like Google Analitycs can be almost impossible. Thanks to row_filter, we can limit ingestion and load, for exa...
In regions in which new Lakebase autoscaling is available, from Lakebase, you can access both autoscaling and older provisioned Lakebase instances. #databricks https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-2-12-january-2026-to-18-january...
Runtime 18, including Spark 4.1, is no longer in Beta. You can start migrating now. Runtime 18 is available now only for classic compute. Serverless, or SQL warehouse, still using older runtimes. Once 18 is everywhere, we will be able to use identifi...
All pivot table lovers can now export a pivot table from Dashboards to Excel #databricks More Databricks news: https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-2-5-january-2026-to-11-january-2026-0bfc6c592051
That's my favourite meme of all time
95% of GenAI projects fail. How to become part of the 5%? I tried to categorize the 5 most popular failure reasons #databricks https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/why-95-percent-genai-projects-fail-databricks-agent-bricks
Accidentally dropping a table in production is every data engineer’s nightmare. One wrong command, one missing WHERE clause or worse, a rushed DROP TABLE and suddenly critical data is gone.Thankfully, Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog gives us a sa...
Excellent explanation of UNDROP in Unity Catalog. The examples and callouts around retention windows and edge cases make this very actionable. Thanks for putting this together. Cheers, Louis.
