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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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alxsbn
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Resolved! Metric View measure on joined table

On the Databricks documentation they take the TPCH classical tables to create some example https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/metric-views/create/It's pretty easy to create a metric view using orders and do a measure like SUM(totalprice). Now let's s...

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NandiniN
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Hi @alxsbn ,  The Metric View joins are designed for "Many-to-One" relationships. Because orders and lineitem have a One-to-Many relationship (one order has multiple line items), you cannot join lineitem onto an orders-based Metric View and aggregate...

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senkii
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! How to make a table in databricks using excel file

I want to upload excel file to make a table by using UI in databricks.since databricks doesn't accept excel files. So I tried to change the datatype of  all the data in excel to string first.Then transform it to csv uft-8, and click the [create ]butt...

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iyashk-DB
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If your workspace has Genie spaces enabled, you can upload Excel (.xlsx) directly to Genie and analyze it there; it’s designed for quick validation and NLQ over uploaded files and UC tables. Otherwise, you can use the following approaches: Option A: ...

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TJ-Leap-Forward
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! AI/BI Genie for Snowflake

For one of my client, we are building the entire semantic layer for Data (BI) reporting who uses Snowflake. Is there a way to quickly integrate AI/BI Genie on top of Snowflake ?

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Louis_Frolio
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Hey @TJ-Leap-Forward ,  Yes — you can stand up Databricks AI/BI Genie on top of Snowflake quickly by federating Snowflake into Unity Catalog and then building Genie spaces over those governed datasets, without migrating data out of Snowflake. This wo...

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nanditakrishnan
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Databricks Dashboard Optimization

I have trouble understanding why, for every report in a dashboard that refers to the same data source, the query re-runs each time Ideally I would want queries being used to fuel the tables for the dashboard run exactly once, and then have the filter...

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Poorva21
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Your expectation is reasonable, but most dashboards are designed to recompute queries per visual. The best workaround is to precompute the base dataset in a table or view, and have all visuals query that instead. This reduces query load and ensures c...

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Rennzie
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Understanding what impacts "Optimizing query & pruning files" time

Hi everyone. I'm keen to understand what impacts the "Optimizing query & pruning files" times seen in the Query Profile History for a sQL Warehouse query. We're querying against delta tables and cannot find any information about what or when a query ...

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Rennzie
New Contributor II
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Hey @Louis_Frolio, thank you for the detailed response - really useful. We'll work through what looks most relevant to us. Question 1: Can you confirm of the `compilation_time_ms` in the metrics from the list query endpoint corresponds to the â€œOptimi...

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jpdoliveira
by New Contributor II
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Create a table from external location volume using terraform

Hi everyone,I’m trying to create a table in Unity Catalog from a folder that lives inside a Volume, but I can’t get Terraform to create it successfully.Below is the simplified/anonymous version of my Terraform setup.I have:* A Unity Catalog* A Schema...

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Hubert-Dudek
Databricks MVP
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It will not work because it will detect that the locations overlap. I tried it in some experiments, like displaying delta_log in volumes, but it didn't work. In fact, it is secure this way as the Delta files in volume would bypass Unity Catalog ACL f...

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AlexG
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! How to add a line break for Data labels in Visualization Editor

How can I add a break line between data labels in Visualization Editor?Not seeing anything in the documentation that helpsI would like the data labels in the example below to show as:trade count: 223Price: 84.71875 

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Advika
Community Manager
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@AlexG, you can share this in the feature request section so the team can consider it.

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boopa45
by New Contributor II
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Interactive actions in databricks dashboard on table chart

how do we apply/add/make Interactive actions in databricks dashboard on tabular chart. here is my case,I have 2 datasets like below,customer tableCustomer region_cdAA  GABB CNRegion tableregion_cd name PINGA Georgia 12345 in dashbaord i have 2 pane o...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @boopa45 ,If I understood your requirements correctly you're looking for cross-filtering behaviour. Here's a couple of examples:Cross-filtering for AI/BI dashboards - Databricks Community - 82912Next-Level Interactivity in AI/BI Dashboards | Datab...

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amdata
by New Contributor
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Resolved! Is it possible to download tables in a databricks dashboard as CSV/Excel?

I do not see the option as mentioned in the documentation here: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/#:~:text=Download%20results%E2%80%8B,final%20file%20download.Please let me know if PNG is the only available option currently?

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @amdata ,It was possible until recently  There's a bug and databricks team is working on a fix. So soon they should release a fix and then you will be able to export to csv as stated in documentation. Check below thread for more info:ONLY PNG form...

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taegyun
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! How to download widget(in canvas) result into CSV

The CSV download option has disappeared from the dashboard canvas, and only the PNG download option remains. The SQL download option is still active.Why did the previously available option disappear?When I select 'View Dataset,' the result I see is t...

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szymon_dybczak
Esteemed Contributor III
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Hi @taegyun , @random_user77 It seems that this is a bug. This is a known issue, and the team is working on a fix. Check below thread:ONLY PNG format is available for databricks dashbo... - Databricks Community - 140902

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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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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
New Contributor II
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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
New Contributor II
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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...

Dashboard datetime picker obscures minute and second fields, 2025-11-13_19.03UTC.png Hacky fix fopr Dashboard datetime picker to show minute and second fields, 2025-11-13_19.03UTC.png Apache Sperset Dashboard datetime picker shows full minute and second fields, 2025-11-13_19.09UTC.png
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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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