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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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amekojc
by New Contributor III
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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
by Contributor
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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
by Databricks Partner
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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
by Databricks Partner
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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
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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 “Optimi...

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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
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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
Esteemed Contributor III
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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 Honored Contributor II
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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 Databricks Partner
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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
Databricks Partner
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this is source query level right? what if user has only view access?

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

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