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How to pick nodes, cores, memory, and disk for ETL vs. ML vs. SQL—and when to scale up vs. out…

Lakehouse Federation lets you query external databases directly from Databricks—without copying the data into your lake. You point Unity Catalog…

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Delta Sharing lets you publish live, governed data to other teams or external partners—without copying files or building custom APIs….

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Secrets (passwords, keys, tokens) should never live in notebooks or job configs. Databricks gives you a built-in, governed place to…