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Nidhig631
by Databricks MVP
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Databricks Foreign Table

Foreign Tables in Databricks are part of Lakehouse Federation and allow you to query data that lives outside Databricks without copying it into Delta tables first. Think of them as a Unity Catalog object that points to an external system.Let’s unders...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Indexes came to Lakehouse

Lakehouse indexes allow not only to skip files during read but also, thanks to row-level tracking id to go directly to the given row and skip scanning other rows in the file. #databricks https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-full-text-search-index...

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Dataninsight
by Databricks MVP
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Using Scala and Java UDFs in Unity Catalog

A Complete Guide to Scala and Java UDFs in Unity CatalogImagine your company stores customer phone numbers from around the world. Some come in as (415) 555-0132, others as +44 20 7946 0958, others as 020-7946-0958. They all mean something valid, but ...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Full-text search

Full-text search index on Databricks. I managed to search 400 times faster! Read more about CREATE SEARCH INDEX #databricks https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/databricks-full-text-search-index-benchmark https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/full-text-sea...

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Dataninsight
by Databricks MVP
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Building Multi Agent System with Supervisor Agent

Why Multi-Agent Systems Are No Longer Optional in Enterprise AI?Enterprise AI is beginning to hit a ceiling not because today’s models lack capability, but because single agents struggle to manage cross-functional complexity.Modern business problems ...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Postgres 18

When you create a new project in Lakebase, you can choose Postgres 18 (Although 17 is still the default, as 18 has some limitations). #databricks more news and video https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-rt-lakehouse-reyden-lakebase-...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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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
by Databricks MVP
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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
by Databricks MVP
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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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AbiolaDavid
by Databricks MVP
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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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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
by Databricks MVP
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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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AbiolaDavid
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Exploring Databricks Serverless Sandbox: A New Way to Build AI Agents and Develop in the Cloud As

Exploring Databricks Serverless Sandbox: A New Way to Build AI Agents and Develop in the CloudAs AI development continues to evolve, developers are increasingly looking for environments that eliminate infrastructure overhead while providing the flexi...

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