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Witold
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Databricks runtime and Java Runtime

The Databricks runtime is shipped with two Java Runtimes: JRE 8 and JRE 17. While the first one is used by default, you can use the environment variable JNAME to specify the other JRE: JNAME: zulu17-ca-amd64.FWIW, AFAIK JNAME is available since DBR 1...

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Witold
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@AlexeyEgorovThis post is bit outdated, as, starting from Databricks Runtime 16, JDK 17 is the new default.

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noorbasha534
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Resolved! Control plane set-up

Dear all,In this video from Databricks, Azure Databricks Security Best Practices - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1X8ydIR_Bc&t=623sduring this duration in the video 13.25 - 14.35the presenter talks about benefits of private endpoints. He makes the ...

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parthSundarka
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Hi @noorbasha534, Does this control plane then contains management services for several customers? - Yes, Control Plane has management services that are used across customers in the region.  Due to which the presenter says traffic can be isolated fro...

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kch
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Timeout on docker pull in Databricks Container Services

Hello,There is a timeout that limits the size of images used in Docker Container Service. When using images containing large ML libraries, the size often exceeds the limit that could be pulled. Is there any plan to add parametrization of this timeout...

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kch
New Contributor II
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@Walter_C Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, this doesn't resolve my issue. Using the GPU version of Torch even without additional dependencies comes very close to the limit. Once I add the necessary components for training or using the ML m...

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Aria
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policy_id in databricks asset bundle workflow

We are using databricks asset bundle for code deployment and biggest issue I am facing is that policy_id is different in each environment.I tried with environment variable sin azure devops and also with declaring the variables in databricks.yaml and ...

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maikl
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Solved by the lookup function https://docs.databricks.com/en/dev-tools/bundles/variables.html#retrieve-an-objects-id-value

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satniks_o
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Resolved! How to get logged in user name/email in the databricks streamlit app?

I have created a Databricks App using streamlit and able to deploy and use it successfully.I need to get the user name/email address of the logged in user and display in the streamlit app. Is this possible?If not possible at the moment, any roadmap f...

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satniks_o
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Thanks @BigRoux  and @Shannon_O  for your response.I tried st.experimental_user.get() API but it gives me hardcoded response as test@example.com Suggestion to use X-Forwarded-Email header worked and I got correct email address. Thanks for your help. ...

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staskh
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Is it possible to disable file download in Volumes interface?

Workspace security administration panel offers to disable downloads in notebook folders and workspaces. However, it seems that even if all those downloads are disabled, the "Volumes" panel of Unity Catalog still offers a file download button. Is it p...

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szymon_dybczak
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Hi @staskh ,Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to disable it via UI currently. But volumes are governed by UC permission, so maybe you can try to set permission to read/write to approved group of users and take permission of users who should...

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Useit
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Issues with Delta Sharing API when using Service Principal Token

Hello,I am currently working with the Delta Sharing API and have encountered an issue when using a Service Principal token for authentication. The API call returns the following error:[CANNOT_INFER_EMPTY_SCHEMA] Can not infer schema from empty datase...

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Mounika_Tarigop
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Please find the response below:  1) The Delta Sharing API supports both personal access tokens and service principal tokens for authentication. 2) Service principals need to be granted specific roles and permissions to access data. This includes assi...

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hellobuddy
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Mounika_Tarigop
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The below documentation shows how to install libraries in a cluster.   https://docs.databricks.com/en/libraries/cluster-libraries.html#install-a-library-on-a-cluster

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manojpatil04
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GCP Databricks GKE cluster with 4 nodes

I am working on setting up GCP Databricks and successfully created first GCP-Databricks workspace, but what I observed is it is incurring additional charges even i am using 14days free trail. It is GKE cluster with 4 nodes which are spin up as part o...

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manojpatil04
New Contributor III
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Thank you @BigRoux,Just want to dig more into this as is there any way to reduce this nodes using CLI or creating customer managed network.

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karen_c
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Resolved! Databricks All-purpose compute Pricing

Hello, I am now struggling how to calculate the cost of my job cluster.My configuration is as below:If I have to run the above cluster 18 hours per day, in Standard Tier and East Asia Region, how much will be the pricing of the cluster?Any help provi...

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TakuyaOmi
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@karen_c Let me make a small correction.It seems that you have checked the option for Spot Instances, which should make the cost slightly lower. Please refer to the far-right column of the attached pricing table for more details.Additionally, you hav...

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Aaron_Wong
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How do I simply disable someone's user account

I'm trying to do something seemingly very simple - disable someone's user account. I don't even want to delete the user, just disable it for the time being. How do I go about doing that? 

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Aaron_Wong
New Contributor II
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Hello! I tried this call. I hid the sensitive information with "HIDDEN" in the example:  curl --request PATCH 'https://HIDDEN.cloud.databricks.com/api/2.0/preview/scim/v2/Users/HIDDEN' \ --header 'Accept: application/scim+json' \ --header 'Content-Ty...

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AlbertWang
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Resolved! Azure Databricks Unity Catalog - Cannot access Managed Volume in notebook

The problemAfter setting up Unity Catalog and a managed Volume, I can upload/download files to/from the volume, on Databricks Workspace UI.However, I cannot access the volume from notebook. I created an All-purpose compute, and run dbutils.fs.ls("/Vo...

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AlbertWang
Contributor III
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I found the reason and a solution, but I feel this is a bug. And I wonder what is the best practice.When I enable the ADSL Gen2's Public network access from all networks as shown below, I can access the volume from a notebook.However, if I enable the...

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raghu2
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Access to system.billing.usage tables

I have Account, Marketplace, Billing Admin roles. I have visibility to system.billing.list_prices table only.How do I get access to system.billing.usage tables? Databricks instance is on AWS.Thanks

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raghu2
New Contributor III
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Hi @Alberto_Umana, Thanks for your response. I needed Metastore Admin permissions too. In account console, I changed the Metastore Admin to be a group, became a part of the group. With this other tables were visible. With this permission using the gr...

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JissMathew
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Best Practices for Daily Source-to-Bronze Data Ingestion in Databricks

How can we effectively manage source-to-bronze data ingestion from a project perspective, particularly when considering daily scheduling strategies using either Auto Loader or Serverless Warehouse COPY INTO commands?

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BigRoux
Databricks Employee
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No, it is not a strict requirement. You can have a single node job cluster run the job if the job is small.

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BryanC
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Any Databricks system tables contain info of the saved/pre-defined queries

How can I find the saved/pre-defined queries in Databricks system tables?system.query.history seems NOT having the info, like query-id or query-name

Administration & Architecture
query
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tapash-db
Databricks Employee
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Hi Bryan, Databricks system tables do not store saved queries. Query history table captures the query execution details, including: Statement IDExecution statusUser who ran the queryStatement text (if not encrypted)Statement typeExecution durationRes...

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