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Data Engineering with Azure Databricks
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This chapter established the technical and governance foundation for building a modern, production-ready Azure Databricks Lakehouse. It guided you through the full setup process—from selecting an optimal Azure region and provisioning a workspace to configuring security, governance, and compute resources.
You were introduced to Unity Catalog as the central governance layer that unifies data and AI asset management across workspaces, replacing the legacy Hive Metastore with fine-grained access control, centralized metadata, and built-in lineage and auditing.
In a retail analytics use case, you configured an Azure Data Lake Storage integration using managed identities, storage credentials, and external locations, and designed a structured catalog and schema to organize data by environment and domain. You then created managed and external tables across the Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, built volumes for raw-file staging, and performed basic data-quality and freshness...