What Is a Service Principal in Databricks? A service principal is a specialized, non-human identity within Azure Databricks, designed exclusively for automation, integrations, and programmatic access. Service principals are intended…
What Is a Databricks Workspace? A Databricks workspace is the core organizational environment in Databricks where teams perform all collaborative data engineering, data science, analytics, and machine learning tasks. It…
This guide walks you through setting up a Unity Catalog metastore in Azure Databricks, connecting it securely to an Azure storage account using the Access Connector, validating the setup, and…
Below is a complete workflow—with working SQL and Python code—demonstrating how to create, manage, insert, read, and delete data for both Managed and External tables in Databricks. After each step,…
The main file storage options in Databricks are: Option Best Use Case Security/Governance Notes Unity Catalog Volumes Data, artifacts across workspaces Strong Recommended, scalable Workspace Files Notebooks, code, small files…
Databricks supports several types of tables, each designed for distinct storage, management, and integration scenarios. The main table types are: Summary Table Table Type Storage/Location Management Formats Supported Use Case…
dbutils is a built-in utility module in Databricks notebooks (Python, Scala, R) that provides programmatic access to common workspace tasks, including interacting with the Databricks File System (DBFS), handling secrets,…
here’s the simplified definition of Unity Catalog: In short — it’s the “library catalog” and “security guard” for all your Databricks data and AI. If you want, I can give…
The Databricks Account Console is the central, account-level management portal for Databricks — it’s where you control everything that spans multiple workspaces. Think of it as the “control tower” for…
let’s make this a “Databricks SQL Quickstart – 25 Commands” guide for first-time use in the Notebook with the Unity Catalog → schema → table workflow. I’ll order these so…