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MadelynM
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[Recap] Data + AI Summit 2024 - Warehousing & Analytics | Improve performance and increase insights

Here's your Data + AI Summit 2024 - Warehousing & Analytics recap as you use intelligent data warehousing to improve performance and increase your organization’s productivity with analytics, dashboards and insights.  Keynote: Data Warehouse presente...

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Coffee77
by Contributor III
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How to inject non-literal values in "table_changes" CDF function?

Hi guys,I am trying to use table_changes CDF function in an external SQL function run it from an SQL Warehouse serverless cluster in order to retrieve a set of changes from a given table. Here is the documentation for this fuunction:https://docs.data...

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iamgoce
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What's worked for us is to use a string variable to construct the query and then use EXECUTE IMMEDIATE to execute the query:DECLARE OR REPLACE VAR QUERY; SET VAR QUERY = 'SELECT * FROM TABLE_CHANGES("catalog.schema.table", "' || timestamp_start || '"...

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jasmin_mbi
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Impossible to create classic warehouse

Hello,we have already spent surprisingly many DBUs, although we have only uploaded a few tiny tables (9 Tables with approx. 10 lines).We had the idea to change the warehouse from serverless starter warehouse to classic 2x small in order to save DBUs....

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @Margie129Palmer ,Make sure that you meet following requirements - to create a SQL warehouse you must be a workspace admin or a user with unrestricted cluster creation permissions. 

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boopa45
by New Contributor II
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databricks dashboards - how do share the dashboard to user with Limit the data access

how do share the dashboard to user with Limit the data access without create a new dashboard with filler in source qry?is there any other way?example,I have a dashboard it contains 3 location data exampleIndia CanadaUSA I need to give limited acces t...

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boopa45
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this is source query level right? what if user has only view access?

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boopa45
by New Contributor II
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how do share the dashboard to user with Limit the data access

how do share the dashboard to user with Limit the data access without create a new dashboard with filler in source qry?is there any other way?example,I have a dashboard it contains 3 location data exampleIndia CanadaUSAI need to give limited acces to...

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boopa45
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this is source query level right? what if user has only view access? 

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SFDataEng
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Please show seconds in date picker dashboard filter widget

Request: please adjust Databricks AI/BI Dashboard Filter Date Picker built-in style (font size, layout, etc.) so that the full datetime selected for "from" and "to" times are displayed (including all minutes and seconds digits) Why: it is frustrating...

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SFDataEng
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Hi @stbjelcevic, thank you so much for tracking the request.  If it gets implemented, I will be able to Accept as Solution here.

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Akshay_Petkar
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Resolved! How to Display Top Categories in Databricks AI/BI Dashboard?

In a Databricks AI/BI dashboard, I have a field with multiple categories (e.g., district-wise sales with 50 districts). How can I display only the top few categories (like the top 10) based on a specific metric such as sales?

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GunaR
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This feature is released under the Oct-2025 round-up. Refer the Topic: "Dashboards Top/Bottom N Bar Chart Categories"https://www.databricks.com/blog/whats-new-aibi-october-2025-roundup

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Diegol1337
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Databricks Dashboards - display totals in Tables

I was wondering if anyone has been able to display totals in a Table/Pivot visualization? Similar to what is possible in other BI tools?If I have a table with a bunch of rows and one of the columns is Total Cost, I want to be able to show a Total at ...

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SFDataEng
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Request: option for "Total (Sum)" row for Pivot TablesHi @OndrejHavlicek, your statement and implication appear correct, if I understand accurately.ClarificationThe "Grand Total" line added by the "Display total" checkbox uses the same aggregate func...

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palearnings
by New Contributor III
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Custom Catalog Not Visible to ADF and Looker in Databricks

Hi Databricks community,I’ve created a catalog called azure_data_factory and a database called studytube_azure_mysql_production. Within that database, I have three tables: academies, academy_naming_settings, and users.See the left side of the screens...

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palearnings
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Hi @szymon_dybczak  and @Raman_Unifeye ,Thanks for answering my questions. I have granted the same permissions for both catalogues:USE CATALOGUSE SCHEMA on the schemas under both cataloguesSELECT on the tables under both schemas and cataloguesI even ...

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luksquaresma
by New Contributor II
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Dynamic populated multiple choice query parameters - Documentation clarification

Dear colleagues,I'm in need of finishing a dashboard with the new databricks dashboard structure, released somewhat recently. On it, I'll have some calculations which need to be percentages over certain partitions, such as `input_amount_percentage_pe...

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mark_ott
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It is possible to create dynamic parameter lists in Databricks dashboards—so, yes, the documentation is correct, but the crucial detail is that not all data sources or query environments support this feature in the exact same way, and certain limitat...

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p_a_l
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Resolved! Failed to Access Azure Storage Container from Databricks in ADF Pipeline

 Hi Databricks community,I'm new to Databricks and I'm trying to connect Databricks to Azure MySQL using Azure Data Factory.When I run the pipeline, I get the following error: ErrorCode=AzureDatabricksCommandError, Hit an error when running the comma...

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Coffee77
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Could you provide more details about high level flow or design you are planning? Not understanding completely but you can take a look here how to connect ADF with Databricks via PATs -> https://www.sqlshack.com/integrating-azure-databricks-with-azure...

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mtreigelman
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Re-Using Datasets inside the Same SQL Dashboard

Hi folks, I am creating a SQL dashboard and want to know if I can re-use datasets within the same dashboard. The screenshot below captures what I would like to do pretty well, but to summarize... I need to run an computationally expensive query and w...

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SFDataEng
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AgreementYes, a feature to support nested datasets in Databricks AI/BI dashboards would seem convenient, e.g. as in both examples in the OP's screenshot.Specific needA use case that comes to mind would be to avoid the maintenance of parallel code acr...

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AndreasFuchs
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Cost Tracing by accessed unity catalog catalog schema, sharing of sql warehouse

Hi community,we have several databricks workspaces per different teams and in each workspace several use case covered.How can we trace the costs per individual use cost for SQL Warehosue / serverless in case we use one SQL warehouse per workspace to ...

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mark_ott
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You have two related questions on Databricks SQL Warehouse (serverless) cost attribution and resource sharing across workspaces. Here’s a clear answer based on current Databricks capabilities and industry practice. Tracing Costs per Use Case (SQL War...

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carlaoftw
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Resolved! Can not create a Streamlit Databricks App on free tier

I'm trying to deploy a minimal Streamlit app as a Databricks App on a fresh Free/Community workspace and I get:"Compute error - App creation failed unexpectedly. Please remediate by deleting the app."As alternatives, I also tried the API and the CLI ...

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eebruno
New Contributor II
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Good morning, everyone.The app is working again. I've already tested it and it's working.

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arindamchoudhur
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Resolved! Help with visualization: view only top 10

Hi,I want to create a visualization where i want to show top 10 playerName with most sum of counter by dayDate. I reached till here. But i don't know how to limit top 10 playerName.Any help will be highly appreciated.

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arindamchoudhur
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Finally what i did is:create a new data source with is query:WITH daily_totals AS (SELECTevent_date,playerName,SUM(counter) AS total_counterFROM your_tableGROUP BY event_date, playerName),ranked AS (SELECTevent_date,playerName,total_counter,ROW_NUMBE...

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