Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and Data Lake

SQW08 Intro to Databricks Unity Catalog for the SQL Server Developer

11/15/2023

4:00pm - 5:15pm

Level: Introductory

Meagan Longoria

Data & Analytics Consultant

Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting

If you've been building data warehouses in SQL Server, you may want to look into developing data lakehouses. In this session, you’ll learn what a lakehouse is and how it is different from a relational database such as SQL Server. You’ll also get an overview of Databricks Unity Catalog and advice on implementing it in Azure. You’ll leave this session feeling more comfortable in this new lakehouse world and understanding how your SQL skills will remain useful.

You will learn:

  • To define the term data lakehouse and compare with a database
  • The features of Databricks Unity Catalog
  • How to create and manage schemas in Unity Catalog