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Abiola-David
by Databricks MVP
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Resolved! UNDROP in Azure Databricks: Recover Dropped Tables Like a Pro

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...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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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.

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Research PDF Report

In Genie, there is a Deep Research mode (similar to ChatGPT Pro mode). It can now generate a report that we can save as a PDF. Really useful option to impress your management. #databricks More news https://medium.com/@databrickster/databricks-news-20...

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RishabhTudip07
New Contributor III
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Thank you for sharing this @Hubert-Dudek 

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Agent Skills

Do you know that it is possible to extend the Assistant with agent skills? It is really straightforward and allows you, in fact, to extend the functionality of databricks. You can create templates for an assistant - I experimented with a template to ...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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Databricks Assistant

Databricks Assistant can also be used in databricks documentation without login to #databricks. Read and watch databricks news on:https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-2-5-january-2026-to-11-january-2026-0bfc6c592051

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scottdavis
by Databricks MVP
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Let's talk about Data Governance

As we move into 2026, the mandate for modern data and AI is clear. The industry has pivoted from evaluating isolated features to building foundational futures. Since the 2025 Data + AI Summit, I have consulted with numerous organizations across a ran...

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Hubert-Dudek
by Databricks MVP
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DABS: New Plan Version

If you are using a plan to deploy DABS, starting from 0.282, plan_version has been moved to 2. A new plan can have a different structure. Please keep in mind that inconsistencies in DABS versions can break your CI/CD. #databricks I wrote an article a...

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carlyakerly
by Databricks Employee
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OCR Made Simple with Databricks AI Functions

Databricks MVP Conner Schiissler explores the new ai_parse_document() function, which replaces complex OCR integrations with a simple SQL command to extract structured markdown from unstructured files. Read here.

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Databricks77
New Contributor III
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This is a great feature

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