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A common question when setting up row-level security in Unity Catalog is what to do when the column that decides who can see a row is not on the table you want to protect. The value lives in a related table, one join away. This comes up often in ins...

Ashwin_DSA · 06-29-2026

I'm currently working with a banking customer migrating from Hive Metastore to Unity Catalog. While planning their catalog layout, one of their platform engineers asked the question that prompted this post: for their schemas and volumes, should th...

Ashwin_DSA · 06-25-2026

A question came up in the community recently that I thought deserved more than a short answer. The question was around how to build a reliable investigation sequence for slow Spark jobs, specifically when symptoms overlap. A long-running stage with ...

Ashwin_DSA · 05-18-2026

You've spent months planning the migration, the pipelines are built, and data is flowing into the new platform. Then comes the hard part: proving the data actually matches. Business validation and reconciliation is where data migrations fail. Not be...

Ashwin_DSA · 03-28-2026

In Part 1, we covered why multi-table transactions matter. Now let's build one. We'll create the tables from the claim wrap-up scenario, load sample P&C insurance data, and walk through what happens when the wrap-up succeeds, when it fails, and when...

Ashwin_DSA

Hi , Sorry to hear about this. On a paid Databricks account, the normal recovery path is to log in to the account console as an account admin and reassign the workspace admin role from there. However, Free Edition accounts do not have access to the a...

Ashwin_DSA

Hi @karuppusamy, Thanks for sharing the error snapshot. What you are seeing is expected behaviour rather than a bundle misconfiguration. Genie Agents are an unsupported asset type for commits in Databricks Git folders, so the workspace Git integratio...

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Hi @koosha, I understand the challenge, but you unfortunately won't have control over this. Genie produces the response, and that output is best-effort rather than guaranteed behaviour.

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Hi @haaland - I believe the fix has now been rolled out, and I have tested my sandbox workspace where citations are working correctly. Please check and let me know if you still face issues. Happy to follow up internally.

Ashwin_DSA

Hi @daniel_benchANT, Lakehouse//RT is currently in Beta, and it's gated, which is why you are not seeing it listed on the Previews page in your workspace yet. The feature only appears there after your Databricks account team has enabled it for your s...

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Row-level security when the filter column is not on your table

Managed vs External Storage in Unity Catalog on Azure: Where Should Your Data Live?

Reading Spark UI: A Repeatable Guide to Finding Performance Bottlenecks

Speed Up Data Warehouse Migration Validation

Databricks Multi-Table Transactions - Part 2

Re: Accidentally removed the only workspace admin – Free Edition

Re: Genie Higher Environment deployment using DAB

Re: Genie agent hyperlink creation

Re: Genie Agents citation (bug)

Re: Access to Lakehouse Real-Time (RT) in the preview tab