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Not a new feature just one I noticed a bit late In Databricks, the ability to attach images and URLs while sharing content is incredibly useful when you’re:Running live demosSharing a cheat sheetPointing teams to documentation or reference linksInste...
One of the biggest challenges in modern data engineering is bridging the gap between business‑user data sources and enterprise‑grade analytics platforms. Google Drive has long been a favourite for teams collaborating on documents, spreadsheets, and a...
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.
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