Problem While trying to access the Databricks CLI (AWS | Azure | GCP) in Windows, you get a failed to create process error message. Cause This can happen: If multiple instances of the Databricks CLI are installed on the system. If the Python path on your Windows system includes a space. Info There is a known issue in pip which causes pip installed s...

When a Databricks SQL user is removed from an organization, the queries owned by the user remain, but they are only visible to those who already have permission to access them. A Databricks SQL admin can transfer ownership to other users, as well as delete alerts, dashboards, and queries owned by the disabled user account. Clone a query A Databricks...

Turbodbc is a Python module that uses the ODBC interface to access relational databases. It has dependencies on libboost-all-dev, unixodbc-dev, and python-dev packages, which need to be installed in order. You can install these manually, or you can use an init script to automate the install. Create the init script Run this sample script in a noteboo...

Problem You run a Python notebook and it fails with an AssertionError: wrong color format message. An example stack trace:   File "/local_disk0/tmp/1599775649524-0/PythonShell.py", line 39, in <module>     from IPython.nbconvert.filters.ansi import ansi2html   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load   File "<...

When you remove a user (AWS | Azure) from Databricks, a special backup folder is created in the workspace. This backup folder contains all of the deleted user’s content. Backup folders appear in the workspace as <deleted username>-backup-#. Info Only an admin user can access a backup folder. To access a backup folder: Log into Databricks as an...