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Getting Started with Databricks SQL Analytics | PDF
Getting Started with
Databricks SQL
Analytics
Simon Whiteley
Director of Engineering, Advancing Analytics
Agenda
§ The Lakehouse Challenge
§ SQL Analytics
§ Key Concepts
The Lakehouse Challenge
RAW BASE
PARQUET
The Modern Warehouse
Data Engineers &
Data Scientists
Report
Consumers
BI Developers
RAW BASE ENRICHED
DELTA DELTA
The Lakehouse
Delta brings huge benefits to data
engineers, but what about the
other users in our ecosystem?
Challenges
Love writing SQL, Care about performance & modelling
Love SQL typedown, code snippets, execution plans
Not Spark Developers
Just want their dashboards to work
Minimal Technical barriers, Maximum Performance
BI Developers
Report Consumers
Databricks SQL Analytics
Data Science &
Engineering
Workspace
SQL
Analytics
Workspace
• Full Technical Control
• Many Languages
• Notebook
Development
Environment
• Simplified Controls
• SQL-Only
• Query Builder &
Dashboarding
Data Science &
Engineering
Workspace
SQL
Analytics
Workspace
Lake Data
Acquire & Transform
Data into Lake
Surface Data as
Hive Tables
SQL
Exploring, Shaping
& Visualising the
data via SQL
Key Concepts – SQL Endpoint Configuration
Key Concepts – Queries
Key Concepts – Dashboards
Key Concepts – Alerts
Key Concepts – History
SQL Analytics Workspace
§ Setting up an Endpoint
§ Writing Queries
§ Building Dashboards
§ Alerts & History
SQL Analytics & Power BI
SQL Analytics & Power BI
Completing Your Lakehouse Journey
RAW BASE ENRICHED
DELTA DELTA
Databricks SQL Analytics
welcomes the BI community into
the Lakehouse Architecture
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Getting Started with Databricks SQL Analytics