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Azure Databricks Cookbook

By : Phani Raj, Vinod Jaiswal
Book Image

Azure Databricks Cookbook

By: Phani Raj, Vinod Jaiswal

Overview of this book

Azure Databricks is a unified collaborative platform for performing scalable analytics in an interactive environment. The Azure Databricks Cookbook provides recipes to get hands-on with the analytics process, including ingesting data from various batch and streaming sources and building a modern data warehouse. The book starts by teaching you how to create an Azure Databricks instance within the Azure portal, Azure CLI, and ARM templates. You’ll work through clusters in Databricks and explore recipes for ingesting data from sources, including files, databases, and streaming sources such as Apache Kafka and EventHub. The book will help you explore all the features supported by Azure Databricks for building powerful end-to-end data pipelines. You'll also find out how to build a modern data warehouse by using Delta tables and Azure Synapse Analytics. Later, you’ll learn how to write ad hoc queries and extract meaningful insights from the data lake by creating visualizations and dashboards with Databricks SQL. Finally, you'll deploy and productionize a data pipeline as well as deploy notebooks and Azure Databricks service using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to use Azure Databricks to streamline different processes involved in building data-driven apps.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Connecting Power BI to Databricks SQL

Databricks SQL provides built-in connectors for Power BI users to connect to objects in Databricks SQL. Power BI users can now connect to a SQL endpoint to get a list of all tables and can connect using the import or direct query mode.

In this recipe, you will learn how to connect to a SQL endpoint from Power BI.

Getting ready

Before starting the recipe, ensure you have executed both of the following notebooks. The following notebook creates the required tables on which we can build our visualizations and dashboard. You need to ensure you download the latest version of Power BI Desktop:

You can go through the following link which has the requirements for connecting Power...