Unity & Azure Databricks: A Data Duo

Enabling the Unity Catalog on your Azure Databricks workspace will significantly improve your data management capabilities.

The Unity Catalog is a game-changing feature that will revolutionize the way you handle data on Databricks. With its advanced functionalities, you can expect an effortless and intuitive data management experience that will help you make more informed decisions, faster. Get ready to take your data management to the next level with the Unity Catalog on Azure Databricks!

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In this article, you'll learn exactly how to enable a Unity catalog for your workspace and the requirements.

Before the introduction of the Unity catalog, data governance and management were carried out at the workspace level. This meant that access control, user management, and hive metastore data were all managed separately at each workspace, leading to a decentralized approach. With the implementation of the Unity catalog, however, these tasks have been centralized, leading to greater efficiency and uniformity in data management across different workspaces.