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How AI Agents Remember – Sessions and Memory on Databricks
Your agent restarts halfway through helping someone. What does it remember? A hands-on look at managed agent sessions and memory on Databricks with the AgentKit SDK, plus why actor_id is…
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Introduction To Agent Skills With The Databricks Assistant
Hey folks, long time no speak! (Technically only a month, ish, but good to be back regardless) So, for those who know me, you’ll know that I’m always keen on…
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Getting Started with Unity Catalog Metric Views
The post discusses the significance and creation of Metric Views in Databricks, emphasizing their role in standardizing key performance indicators across tools while simplifying user experience. It covers the benefits…
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Data-driven Notifications with Databricks
This blog outlines a straightforward approach to automating email notifications with SQL output attachments using Databricks. It highlights the limitations of native alerts for specific scenarios and presents a customizable…
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Transforming T-SQL (or any dialect) to Databricks with AI_QUERY: A Step-by-Step Guide
Hey folks, long time no speak – it’s been a crazy amount of time since my last blog, so it’s great to get back into it again. I won’t update…
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Delivering Interoperability For Analytics in Healthcare with Databricks (Part 1 – Ingestion & Analysis)
This article, part of a series focused on Healthcare analytics, discusses how Databricks can be used to effectively manage interoperability in healthcare systems. By leveraging standardized protocols, such as FHIR…
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Lakehouse Federation – Data Virtualisation for the Databricks Age
I’ve always been a fan of data virtualisation. I know it’s not the silver bullet for every kind of data integration scenarios (I still love my ETL/ELT), but for those…
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Change of role!
It’s been a couple of months since my last post and that’s largely down to the fact that I’ve done something I never imagined doing – I’ve left Microsoft! There’s…
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Data Quality ELT With Azure Data Factory
Been a while since my last post – got a few in the backlog now though so will have a trickle of articles coming through in the next few months.…
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Building the Lakehouse Architecture With Azure Synapse Analytics
We’re all largely familiar with the common modern data warehouse pattern in the cloud, which essentially delivers a platform comprising a data lake (based on a cloud storage account like…
Lakehouses, data & AI
