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Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how data teams explore, analyse, and operationalise insights. One of the most exciting developments is the ability to combine Azure Databricks Genie, the AI assistant built into Databricks, with Microsoft ...
Most people spin up Lakebase and hit surprises they didn't see coming.
Here's everything I wish I'd known before shipping packed into 5 slides.
What's inside:
What is Lakebase?
Fully managed Postgres on Databricks. OLTP for the Lakehouse. No ETL p...
Thanks to Skills, we can finally implement the enterprise naming convention. Not only through Genie but also through Agent, auditing all our schemas. #databricks
https://databrickster.medium.com/implementing-enterprise-naming-convention-agentic-way-3...
The ATOMIC Compound Statement in Databricks SQL is a block of statements that executes as a single, all-or-nothing transaction. If any statement inside the block fails, the entire block is rolled back. Read Complete Article here:Databricks SQL Runtim...
An ATOMIC compound statement in Databricks SQL runs multiple SQL commands as one transaction.If any statement fails, everything is rolled back; if all succeed, all changes are committed together. genesiscard com
As organisations increasingly move toward AI-driven analytics, the need to bring insights closer to end users is more important than ever. With Databricks Genie Spaces, you can enable natural language interactions over your data, allowing users to as...
Databricks recently released Genie Code. It sounds very promising. We know it’s a Databricks product and we wouldn’t be surprised if I tell you it works within Databricks. In this experiment, we want to see how much effort does it take to migrate som...
With readChangeFeed flag AUTO, CDC automatically reads data from the Delta CDF. Thanks to the new flag and the ability to orchestrate the pipeline from the SQL warehouse, processing the Delta CDF is faster than ever. #databricks
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If you’ve worked with Azure Databricks for a while, you’ve probably noticed one small but persistent friction point: the URLs.They’re long, system-generated, and not exactly memorable.Something like:Now imagine sharing that with business users, analy...
This looks very promising!Question - how do the workspace URLs work once the custom domain at the account level has been configured. If one goes to the development workspace, will the new url look like "https://contoso.databricks.com/WORKSPACE_ID"?
AUTO CDC made me curious about one practical question: if Auto CDC is now one of the easiest ways to process CDF, is it also the cheapest? To answer that, I compared 3 approaches:
- AUTO CDC pipeline (in standard and performance mode)- Spark Structur...
We can ask Genie to explain the chart or its changes, such as spikes. There is a new button directly in the chart corner to start a conversation.
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What is a Metric View? (Think of it as a virtual report definition)Metric Views are a first-class object in Databricks Unity Catalog that allow you to define reusable, governed business metrics on top of your existing tables and views.Think of them a...
We can now define Data Quality Alerts and schedule them. We will be notified when an anomaly is detected. It was possible before, but required setting a custom query and using system tables. Additionally, SQL Alert is now a normal Lakeflow job task, ...
There is a new account level, Databricks one. It includes all assets from all workspaces the user has access to in one place. It is available through https://accounts.azuredatabricks.net/one or https://accounts.cloud.databricks.com/one
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Are you managing multiple LLMs on Databricks with no visibility or control? If the answer is Yes, don't worry, you are not alone. I have been in multiple discussion and got the same question about managing multiple LLMs in one place. Now, we have Dat...