The Genie has spoken And the winners of the Genie-Powered App Challenge are… A few weeks ago, we threw down a challenge: build something incredible with Databricks Apps and Genie Agent. And wow, you delivered. From smart, real-world prob...
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Hey Databricks Community! Join us for a free, community-sponsored BrickTalk on Thursday, September 17, 2026! BrickTalks is a community event series where Databricks experts share real-world use cases, demos, and practical insights for building with d...
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN The Data + AI World Tour is heading your way A free, one-day event on how organizations are building AI they can trust to deliver real outcomes - by grounding models in their own enterprise data and business context. THE...
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Databricks Advanced Learning Festival September 16 – October 14, 2026 Join us for a four-week event dedicated to learning, upskilling, and advancing your career in data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Whether you are...
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Databricks EMEA Learning Festival Hands On Virtual Training 29–30 September 2026 · 09:00 BST / 10:00 CEST · Fully virtual · Free to join Ready to accelerate your journey on Data & AI? Join us for the EMEA Learning Festival. A two-day, hands-on vir...
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Community Champion • Our Community Champion Program celebrates members who consistently contribute their expertise, support fellow practitioners, and help shape a stronger and more collaborative Databricks Community. Every month, we recognize individ...
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Tuesday
The Weekly Digest • August 31 – September 6 Community Pulse Your weekly pulse: new articles, real answers, and the discussions worth watching. This Week's Community Stars This week's difference-makers – and a shout-out to the new members ear...
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Tuesday
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Access free lab in databricks
I am currently attending an AI Engineering course and would like to access the free lab environment for hands‑on practice. Could you please guide me on how to obtain 30 days of free lab access?
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Can I do an Associate Data Engineer certificate without doing hands on lab?
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[PARTNER BLOG] Building an Agent-Native Data Quality Manager with Databricks Apps and DQX
Introduction: The Data Quality ParadoxWhat We BuiltThe Technology StackArchitecture Deep DiveThe Four-Layer ArchitectureLayer 1: UsersLayer 2: Databricks Apps PlatformLayer 3: Compute LayerLayer 4: Data LayerWhy This Design?The User Experience: A Com...
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This is great and satisfies one of the use cases within our business. Does the AI-assisted rule generation ever send raw production row values to the LLM/model endpoint, or does it only use metadata and aggregated profiling stats from inside the Data...
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Resolved! Need Databricks Machine Learning Associate Practice Questions
Are there any Practice Questions for Machine Learning Associate Exam?
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AI/BI Dashboards
Hi AllMy client is looking to create a few dashboards in DataBricks instead of Power BI. We already have a template in Power BI (header for each page, information about out BI Page) in each of our power bi report which has colors, fonts, images etc.H...
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Hi @km1837, Databricks AI/BI Dashboards have solid theming and organisational capabilities that should cover most of what you are used to in Power BI. AI/BI Dashboards don't have a "template file" concept the way Power BI does with .pbit files, but y...
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External embedding for reports using federated credentials fails
Hi,We are implementing external dashboard embedding in Azure Databricks and want to avoid using client secrets by leveraging **Azure Managed Identity** with **OAuth token federation** for generating the embedded report token.Following OAuth token fed...
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Databricks still hasn't committed to addressing this issue.The only workaround is to get enrolled in the private preview for Dashboard Embedding with SSO (Embed with SSO Preview User Guide - Google Docs). This only works if you're already authorizing...
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Databricks Community Champion - August 2026 - Shamen Paris
Community Champion • Our Community Champion Program celebrates members who consistently contribute their expertise, support fellow practitioners, and help shape a stronger and more collaborative Databricks Community. Every month, we recognize individ...
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@ivanvyd thank you and please refer below link:https://shamenparis.github.io/databricks-dabs-playbook/
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Actually understanding Unity Catalog Managed Tables
The “why” worth knowing Choosing external tables is usually about flexibility: you keep dedicated storage, maintain raw files that multiple engines can query directly, and control your own partitioning. But control is also a constraint. To guarantee ...
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Thank you for the explanation, @Oleksandra! I'd be interested in an example covering infrequent readers, such as an annual reporting job that uses an otherwise active table. I believe that reader could fall outside the Auto Upgrades observation windo...
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Building Stateful Agents on Lakebase
TL;DR — Production agents need more than conversation history. They must survive restarts, recall decisions from earlier sessions, and work with current business data. In our Supply Chain Planner Copilot, Lakebase handles all three. The key implement...
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Thanks for the great walkthrough, @AlexMiller. If inventory changes while a recommendation is waiting for approval, is it checked again when the run resumes? How do you decide whether the change warrants a revised plan and another review?
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🌟 Community Pulse: Your Weekly Roundup! August 31 – September 06, 2026
The Weekly Digest • August 31 – September 6 Community Pulse Your weekly pulse: new articles, real answers, and the discussions worth watching. This Week's Community Stars This week's difference-makers – and a shout-out to the new members ear...
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Thank you for this @Advika. Does it make sense to add a small section for unanswered questions, if it is not taking much time? Imho it would be a useful addition, especially older ones that have slipped off the front page. Appreciate your efforts!
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How does AUTO CDC resolve same-timestamp tie in SEQUENCE BY?
We are using AUTO CDC (APPLY CHANGES INTO) to process change data capture events from an upstream source (via Autoloader ingesting CDC files landed in cloud storage) into our Silver layer tables. Our source occasionally delivers out-of-order events —...
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@Khasim_1 on your third question, check delete-tombstone retention alongside the sequencing change. The default is two days. The create_auto_cdc_flow reference gives this instruction:Set pipelines.cdc.tombstoneGCThresholdInSeconds to a value that exc...
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Non-deterministic ROW_NUMBER() results across Unity Catalog environments
We have a notebook that calculates the "mode" (most frequent value) of a customer_parent_name field using ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ... ORDER BY count DESC). The exact same notebook code is deployed to two Unity Catalog-governed environments (D...
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@Khasim_1 another option for calculating the most frequent name is mode(customer_parent_name, true). The second argument requests deterministic tie handling and is supported in Databricks SQL and DBR 14.1+.SELECT duns_number, mode(customer_pa...
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Resolved! Certification Coupons
I’m planning to take the Databricks Data Engineer Associate certification and wanted to check if there are any official discounts, student offers, or promotional coupons available to reduce the exam fee.As managing certification costs is important fo...
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HI @Advika ,TO REGISTER FOR THE 50% DISCOUNT SHOULD I CHECK WHETHER ITS COMMUNITY LOGIN/ACADEMY LOGIN IF YES PLS TELL ME HOW TO FIND IN OUR PROFILE THANK YOU VERY MUCH KINDLY DO REPLY REGARDS,KAVI
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How do you test whether a retriever stops too early?
Hello everyone,Databricks’ Adaptive Instructed-Retriever announcement describes a model that learns when to stop searching. How would you test whether it stops after finding a general policy but before finding the exception that changes the answer?I...
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This is a good framing question. A few things that have worked well for evaluating early-stopping retrieval specifically: Build a small labeled set where each query has a known minimal sufficient evidence set (the specific chunks/passages a correct a...
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CUSTOMER STORY | Moving beyond with Data + AI-driven service intelligence at TK Elevator
“Databricks helps simplify some very complex engineering problems for us. That means our teams can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time delivering capabilities — like predictive insights — that improve how our technicians service ele...
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Resolved! Databricks Certified Professional Data Scientist Exam Question Types
Hello,I am not seeing a lot of information regarding the Databricks Certified Professional Data Scientistexam. I took the Associate Developer in Apache Spark Exam last year and the materials for the exam seemed much more focused than what I found for...
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Thanks! I recently passed my exam with 93%. I really struggled to find good preparation resources, but I found authentic practice tests Certs-topic It worked so well for me.
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