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Summary

Per Quentin's review on #513: rather than ship a standalone databricks-lakebase-migration skill, fold the content into the existing databricks-lakebase-autoscale skill as a reference file. ("we already have too many skills.")

This PR replaces #513.

What changed

New: databricks-skills/databricks-lakebase-autoscale/references/migration.md (304 lines, gpt-5.5-densified from #513's 447-line SKILL.md).

Preserves the five non-obvious gotchas verbatim — these are the difference between a 30-minute migration and a 3-hour one:

  1. Raw CREATE DATABASE skips the databricks_auth + neon extensions (silent until first SP OAuth login fails)
  2. App SP roles need databricks_create_role(<sp-uuid>, 'SERVICE_PRINCIPAL'), not vanilla CREATE ROLE
  3. pg_restore --role=<sp-uuid> is the load-bearing flag for SP ownership of restored tables
  4. databricks bundle deploy cannot change database.instance_name on an existing app — workaround is databricks apps update --json with the full resources array
  5. UC sync pipelines (sync_*) do not auto-follow a re-pointed app

Also keeps: cosmetic-warning policy during pg_restore, the common-issues table mapping every observed error string, and the Provisioned ↔ Autoscaling capacity mapping (with the unit redefinition note: Provisioned 1 CU = 16 GB; Autoscaling 1 CU = 2 GB).

Updates to SKILL.md:

  • Trigger description appends migration use case
  • Reference Files section lists the new references/migration.md
  • Current Limitations now points at the migration recipe rather than just stating the limitation

Closes

Closes #513.

Test plan

  • Read references/migration.md end-to-end against the original databricks-lakebase-migration/SKILL.md to confirm all five gotchas survived with full SQL/CLI fix specifics
  • Confirmed the cosmetic restore warnings list survived (`transaction_timeout`, `permission denied for database`, `Databricks SyncedTable`)
  • Confirmed the capacity mapping table + 1-CU-redefinition note survived
  • Verified `databricks_create_role` and `databricks_list_roles` API names spelled correctly

This pull request and its description were written by Isaac.

…ration.md

Per Quentin's review on PR databricks-solutions#513: rather than ship a standalone
databricks-lakebase-migration skill, fold the content into the existing
databricks-lakebase-autoscale skill as a reference file. ("we already
have too many skills.")

Adds:
- references/migration.md (304 lines, gpt-5.5-densified from PR databricks-solutions#513's
  447-line SKILL.md). Preserves the five gotchas verbatim:
    1. Raw CREATE DATABASE skips databricks_auth + neon extensions
    2. App SP roles need databricks_create_role(), not CREATE ROLE
    3. pg_restore --role=<sp-uuid> is required for SP ownership
    4. Bundle deploy can't change database.instance_name; use
       databricks apps update --json with full resources array
    5. UC sync pipelines don't auto-follow re-pointed apps; sync_*
       data is a frozen snapshot
  Also keeps: cosmetic-warning policy during pg_restore, common-issues
  table, Provisioned ↔ Autoscaling capacity mapping (with the 1 CU
  unit redefinition note: Provisioned 16 GB vs Autoscaling 2 GB).

Updates SKILL.md:
- Trigger description appends "or migrating an existing Lakebase
  Provisioned database to Autoscaling via pg_dump/pg_restore"
- Reference Files section lists the new migration.md
- Current Limitations clarifies that the snapshot migration path IS
  documented in this skill (was previously listed as a flat limitation
  with no recipe)

PR databricks-solutions#513 to be closed pointing at this PR.

Co-authored-by: Isaac
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