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MadelynM
by Databricks Employee
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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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hobrob_ex
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Anchor links in notebook markdown

Does anyone know if there is a way to get anchor links working in Databricks notebooks so you can jump to sections in the same book without a full page refresh? i.e. something that works like the following html:<a href="#jump_to_target">Jump</a>...<p...

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iyashk-DB
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@hobrob_ex , yes, this is possible, but not like the HTML way; instead, you will have to use the markdown rendering formats. Add #Heading 1, #Heading 2.. so on in the (+Text) button of the notebook. Once these headings/ sections that you want are con...

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Stanciu_Cristi
by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Dynamic Global Filters

Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well! I'm currently working on an AI/BI dashboard designed for business users, where the goal is for users to simply view and interact with the data in the dashboard. I've asked this question before to the Agent a...

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davidmorton
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Ultimately, your ask is essentially what happens when you're creating a new dashboard and you select some filter fields from the right side. The challenge here, however, is that you want this to be available to the user, and not simply at creation ti...

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_its_akshaye
by New Contributor
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Resolved! Create Cascading Dropdown in Dashboard

I am creating a dashboard, and I am looking to implement the scenario below.How do I create a cascading dropdown where selecting one field filters the available values in another dropdown?In a dropdown, how do I show a description for each option for...

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pradeep_singh
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Create a dataset that returns the “parent” values . Add filter A and connect it to that dataset field. Create a dataset for “child” values whose query is parameterized by the parent selection, or simply filters on the parent field: Configure the filt...

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satyambaranwalc
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! how to create a workspace with community edition?

how to create a workspace with community edition?workspace is not being created after login to community edition.

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Hey @satyambaranwalc , Communithy Edition has been depricated.  You want to use the NEW and IMPROVED Free Edition.  You can sign up here: https://www.databricks.com/learn/free-edition Hope this helps, Louis.

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danilo_amorim
by New Contributor
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Unable to connect to databricks with ODBC connection on a Mac

Hi all!Need help configuring ODBC connection on a Mac. I'm receiving the error "The web server failed to start, please verify if  port 8020 is being used by another connection or annother application".I've downloaded and installed Databricks ODBC con...

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Allex_Sanus
New Contributor II
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Could you please provide the macOS ODBC driver? I’ve been trying to download it from the official website, but the download links are not working.

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Leif
by New Contributor II
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RLS

Hi,I have created a function that I have applied as a row filter function to multiple tables.The function takes one input parameter (a column value from the table). It then uses session_user() to look up a user in our users table. If the user is foun...

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Leif
New Contributor II
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Hi! Sorry for the late reply, lots of holidays No, the user table does not have a row filter in it. The structure is like this:schema1.users: contains a list of users obviously, and it has a column with a customer id for the customer they are allowed...

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jasmin_mbi
by New Contributor
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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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Advika
Community Manager
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Hello @jasmin_mbi! Did the suggestion shared above help resolve the issue with creating a classic SQL warehouse? If yes, please consider marking the response as the accepted solution.

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viniciusmartins
by New Contributor II
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Dataflow Gen2 Timeout When Loading Databricks Tables

 I created a Dataflow Gen2 to get data from Databricks. I can see the preview data very quickly (around 5 seconds). But when I run the dataflow, it takes 8 hours and then cancels with a timeout. I’m trying to get 8 tables with the same schema. Six of...

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viniciusmartins
New Contributor II
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Do you think the Databricks cluster that Microsoft Fabric is connected to needs more capacity?

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andre_rizzatti
by New Contributor II
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SQLWarehouse Case INsensitive

Good morning, is there any parameter or configuration that causes all my data to be consulted without case distinction? insensitive?

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hb0313
New Contributor II
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Is this feature available in GA? Can you help with documentation?

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amekojc
by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Show values as rows instead of columns in pivot table Databricks AI/BI

Is there a way to show values in columns instead of rows in pivot table function?I have fields I want to show as rows, and when I want to add multiple fields under values, they show as rows instead of columns.I want each values field to show as colum...

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Louis_Frolio
Databricks Employee
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Hello @amekojc ,  Yes — Databricks AI/BI pivot tables do support showing multiple measure values as columns, not just as a single stacked “values” row. How to set it up Create a Pivot visualization and add your dimension fields under Rows, and optio...

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Malthe
by Valued Contributor II
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Resolved! Intermittent connectivity issues between Power BI and Databricks

We're experiencing connectivity issues between Power BI (refreshing a dataset) and Databricks.On the Databricks side, we're using a SQL Warehouse (serverless), which reports queries timing out:Query has been timed out due to inactivity.On the Power B...

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emma_s
Databricks Employee
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From everything you've said, it's most likely some kind of Cloud issue with regional availability or network connectivity between Power BI and Databricks. If you want to pursue further I would suggest you log a support ticket with your cloud provider...

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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
Databricks Employee
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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
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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
Databricks Employee
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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
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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
Databricks Employee
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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
Contributor II
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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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