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Analytics premium Azure Databricks A unified, open analytics platform on Azure for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale. Data engineering and AI intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Databricks on Azure Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Azure Databricks Unity Catalog A unified governance layer in Azure Databricks for data and AI assets, including catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, models, privileges, and lineage. Data governance intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Unity Catalog Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks metastore The top-level Unity Catalog container for catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, models, functions, and governance permissions. Databricks intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Unity Catalog metastore, Databricks Unity Catalog metastore, metastore Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks MLflow The managed MLflow experience in Azure Databricks for experiments, runs, metrics, artifacts, model lineage, and MLOps evidence. Databricks fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: MLflow on Databricks, Databricks experiment tracking, MLflow tracking Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks model serving A managed serving endpoint pattern for exposing Databricks models or AI workloads for online inference with operational controls. Databricks intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Databricks Model Serving, serving endpoint, model serving endpoint Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks notebook A collaborative Azure Databricks document for code, SQL, visualizations, exploration, jobs, and ML workflows attached to compute. Databricks fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Azure Databricks notebook, Databricks workspace notebook, interactive notebook Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks Photon The native vectorized Azure Databricks engine for accelerating eligible SQL, DataFrame, ETL, and streaming workloads. Databricks intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Photon engine, Photon acceleration, Databricks vectorized engine Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks repo A workspace Git integration, now called Git folders, for versioning notebooks and files used in Databricks development and CI/CD. Databricks fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Databricks Repos, Databricks Git folder, Azure Databricks Git folders, workspace Git folder Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks schema A Unity Catalog namespace under a catalog that groups tables, views, volumes, models, functions, and permissions. Databricks fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Unity Catalog schema, Databricks database schema, schema in Unity Catalog Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks secret scope A named Databricks collection of secrets used to store credentials and grant controlled read or manage access to workloads. Databricks fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Databricks secrets scope, secret scope, Azure Databricks secrets Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks SQL warehouse A Databricks SQL compute resource for interactive queries, dashboards, BI tools, and governed analytics workloads. Databricks intermediate 4 commands Aliases: SQL warehouse, Databricks SQL compute, serverless SQL warehouse Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks table A governed Databricks data object, commonly managed, external, or foreign, queried through Unity Catalog and optimized for analytics. Databricks fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Unity Catalog table, Delta table in Databricks, Databricks managed table Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks job A scheduled or triggered Databricks workflow that runs one or more tasks using configured compute, parameters, retries, notifications, and access controls. Azure Databricks fundamentals 7 commands Aliases: Databricks workflow job, Lakeflow Job, Databricks Jobs Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks access connector A first-party Azure resource that gives Azure Databricks a managed identity for Unity Catalog storage credentials and other governed service access. Azure Databricks intermediate 6 commands Aliases: Access Connector for Azure Databricks, Azure Databricks access connector, Databricks managed identity connector Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks catalog The top-level Unity Catalog namespace that organizes schemas, tables, views, volumes, models, functions, permissions, lineage, and governed data ownership. Azure Databricks fundamentals 6 commands Aliases: Unity Catalog catalog, Azure Databricks catalog, catalog object Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks cluster A Databricks compute resource that runs notebooks, jobs, libraries, Spark workloads, and data processing tasks using configured runtime, workers, policies, and access controls. Azure Databricks fundamentals 6 commands Aliases: Databricks compute, Azure Databricks compute cluster, classic cluster Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks cluster policy A Databricks governance object that limits which cluster settings users can choose, helping control cost, security, runtime consistency, and workload standards. Azure Databricks intermediate 6 commands Aliases: Databricks compute policy, cluster policy, compute policy Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks DBFS The Databricks file-system abstraction behind dbfs:/ paths, useful for workspace files and legacy mounts but carefully governed alongside Unity Catalog. Azure Databricks fundamentals 6 commands Aliases: DBFS, Databricks File System, dbfs:/ Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks managed resource group The Azure resource group created or referenced for Databricks-managed infrastructure that supports a workspace and its classic compute resources. Azure Databricks intermediate 6 commands Aliases: managed resource group, Azure Databricks managed resource group, workspace managed resource group Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks workflow A Databricks workflow is a scheduled or triggered orchestration of tasks in Azure Databricks, commonly managed through Lakeflow Jobs, for running notebooks, SQL, pipelines, scripts, and production data workloads. Data engineering and analytics intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Databricks Jobs workflow, Lakeflow Jobs workflow, Databricks scheduled workflow, Databricks orchestration Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks workspace A Databricks workspace is the Azure resource and collaborative environment where teams create and operate notebooks, jobs, clusters, SQL warehouses, repositories, experiments, and governed data access. Analytics platform beginner 5 commands Aliases: Azure Databricks workspace, Databricks workspace resource, workspace resource, Databricks environment Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks workspace Private Link Databricks workspace Private Link is the Azure Private Link configuration that provides private connectivity paths to Azure Databricks workspace resources and related Databricks services without exposing traffic to the public internet. Azure Databricks advanced 5 commands Aliases: Azure Databricks Private Link, Databricks private endpoint, workspace private endpoint, front-end Private Link Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Databricks workspace VNet injection Databricks workspace VNet injection is the deployment model that places Azure Databricks compute resources into customer-managed virtual network subnets so network security, routing, and private connectivity controls can be applied. Databricks advanced 5 commands Aliases: VNet-injected Databricks workspace, customer-managed VNet workspace, Databricks VNet injection, workspace in customer VNet Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics top-250-pre130-priority-upgraded Databricks Unity Catalog Databricks Unity Catalog is the centralized governance layer in Azure Databricks for managing data and AI asset metadata, permissions, lineage, discovery, and workspace access relationships. Databricks intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Unity Catalog in Azure Databricks, Azure Databricks Unity Catalog, governed catalog, Databricks data governance Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Auto Loader Auto Loader is the Azure Databricks feature that watches cloud storage and brings in new files without forcing engineers to rescan everything manually. In plain terms, it is a safer ingestion pattern for folders that keep receiving CSV, JSON, Parquet, images, or other data files. It can process existing files, then continue with new. Analytics platform intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Databricks Auto Loader, cloudFiles, Auto Loader cloud files, Lakeflow Auto Loader Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance premium Data catalog Data catalog is a governed inventory of data assets, metadata, business context, ownership, lineage, and access signals used to help people find and understand data. Data governance intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Data catalog Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Delta Lake table A Delta Lake table is a Databricks table stored in Delta format, using data files and a transaction log to support reliable reads, writes, metadata, and table history. Delta Lake fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Delta table in Delta Lake, Databricks Delta Lake table, Delta format table, lakehouse Delta table Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Delta Live Tables Delta Live Tables is the former name for Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, a Databricks framework for declarative batch and streaming pipelines using SQL or Python. Azure Databricks intermediate 4 commands Aliases: DLT, Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, Databricks declarative pipelines, Lakeflow pipelines Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Delta table A Delta table is a table stored in Delta Lake format, combining Parquet data files with a transaction log for reliable batch, streaming, and SQL operations. Delta Lake fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Databricks Delta table, Delta format table, Delta Lake table, managed Delta table Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Microsoft Fabric lakehouse Microsoft Fabric lakehouse is a Microsoft Fabric data item that stores files and tables in OneLake while exposing lakehouse-style analytics and engineering experiences. Teams should manage it with clear ownership, monitoring, rollback evidence, and production change discipline. Microsoft Fabric intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Fabric lakehouse, lakehouse item, OneLake lakehouse Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics field-manual-complete Unity Catalog Unity Catalog is Azure Databricks’ unified governance layer for data and AI assets. It centralizes access control, auditing, lineage, discovery, and classification across workspaces so teams can govern tables, views, volumes, functions, and models through a shared metastore and three-level namespace. Azure Databricks intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Databricks Unity Catalog, Azure Databricks Unity Catalog, unified governance layer, Unity Catalog metastore Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics field-manual-complete Unity Catalog catalog A Unity Catalog catalog is the top level of the Unity Catalog three-level namespace. It groups schemas and their tables, views, volumes, functions, and models under a governance boundary, with permissions, workspace bindings, and ownership patterns that help separate domains, environments, or data products. Azure Databricks intermediate 5 commands Aliases: catalog in Unity Catalog, Databricks catalog, UC catalog, catalog.schema.table namespace Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics field-manual-complete Unity Catalog schema A Unity Catalog schema is the namespace inside a catalog that contains tables, views, volumes, functions, and models. It gives teams a more granular organization and permission boundary than the catalog level while keeping assets in the catalog.schema.object hierarchy used by Azure Databricks. Azure Databricks intermediate 5 commands Aliases: schema in Unity Catalog, Databricks schema, UC schema, catalog schema namespace Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics field-manual-complete Lakehouse architecture Lakehouse architecture combines data lake scale with warehouse-style querying, governance, and analytics patterns. On Azure, it commonly uses Delta Lake, OneLake or ADLS storage, Spark, SQL experiences, BI tools, and layered data design such as bronze, silver, and gold at enterprise scale. Azure Databricks intermediate 4 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics verified Photon Photon is an acceleration engine inside Azure Databricks. When a supported job, SQL warehouse, or pipeline uses Photon, Databricks can process parts of the workload with a faster vectorized engine instead of relying only on standard Spark execution. Users usually do not rewrite code just to use it, but they still need to choose compatible compute and measure results. Photon is useful for SQL, ETL, DataFrame, and some streaming workloads where the speed gain justifies the compute and DBU cost. Azure Databricks intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Databricks Photon, Azure Databricks Photon, Photon query engine, vectorized query engine, Photon runtime Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium field-manual Medallion architecture Medallion architecture is a lakehouse data design that organizes data into bronze, silver, and gold layers as quality improves. Teams use it when data teams need a shared pattern for raw ingestion, cleaned data, curated analytics, and trusted consumption. In plain English, it gives operators a named control for clear data quality stages, ownership boundaries, and reusable analytics products instead of leaving the decision hidden in a portal setting, script, or deployment file. Treat it as production-ready only when the owner, dependencies, permission boundary, monitoring signal, and rollback evidence are clear. Lakehouse architecture intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Medallion architecture, bronze silver gold architecture, medallion lakehouse, bronze silver gold layers, lakehouse medallion pattern, bronze-silver-gold, bronze-silver-gold pattern, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and lakehouse platforms, Lakehouse architecture Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics premium Azure integration runtime Azure integration runtime is the compute infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory and Synapse pipelines to move data, dispatch activities, and connect across network environments. Data integration compute intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Integration Runtime, IR, ADF integration runtime Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning premium Azure Machine Learning Azure Machine Learning is a cloud service for managing the machine learning lifecycle, including workspaces, data, training jobs, model deployment, monitoring, and MLOps. Machine learning operations advanced 5 commands Aliases: Azure ML, AML, Machine Learning workspace Quick peek Open full term page

Databases premium Azure SQL logical server An Azure SQL logical server is a logical administrative construct for Azure SQL Database and related SQL resources. Microsoft Learn describes it as the central point for managing a collection of databases, including logins, firewall rules, auditing, threat detection policies, and failover groups. Azure SQL Database fundamentals 16 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning premium Azure OpenAI resource An Azure OpenAI resource is the Azure control-plane boundary that hosts deployments, endpoints, access, networking, and billing context. Azure OpenAI fundamentals 12 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning premium Azure OpenAI Service Azure OpenAI Service provides managed access to OpenAI model capabilities through Azure endpoints and enterprise controls. Generative AI fundamentals 11 commands Aliases: Azure OpenAI Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning premium Azure OpenAI Azure OpenAI provides OpenAI model capabilities through Azure resources, deployments, identity, networking, quota, and monitoring controls. Azure OpenAI intermediate 8 commands Aliases: Azure OpenAI Service Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance premium Azure Policy Azure Policy is a governance service for creating, assigning, and managing rules that evaluate Azure resources. Azure Policy fundamentals 7 commands Aliases: Policy Quick peek Open full term page

Developer Tools premium Azure PowerShell Azure PowerShell is Microsoft’s Az module collection for managing Azure resources from PowerShell. Command line fundamentals 7 commands Aliases: Az PowerShell module, Az module, Azure PowerShell, Azure PowerShell cmdlets, PowerShell for Azure Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance premium Azure subscription An Azure subscription is a management, billing, and scale unit for Azure resources. Azure scope fundamentals 7 commands Aliases: subscription Quick peek Open full term page

Developer Tools premium Azure CLI A cross-platform command-line tool for connecting to Azure and executing administrative commands on Azure resources. Command line fundamentals 6 commands Aliases: az, Azure command-line interface Quick peek Open full term page

Developer Tools premium Azure Developer CLI An open-source developer command-line tool that accelerates provisioning, deployment, pipeline setup, and monitoring for application resources on Azure. Developer workflow fundamentals 6 commands Aliases: azd Quick peek Open full term page

Compute premium Azure Functions Azure Functions is Azure serverless compute for running code from triggers such as HTTP requests, queues, timers, events, and service integrations without managing servers. Serverless compute intermediate 6 commands Aliases: Functions, Function App, serverless functions Quick peek Open full term page

Containers premium Azure Kubernetes Service Azure Kubernetes Service is Azure’s managed Kubernetes service for deploying, scaling, and operating containerized applications while Azure manages much of the cluster control plane. Managed Kubernetes advanced 6 commands Aliases: AKS, managed Kubernetes Quick peek Open full term page

Hybrid and Multicloud premium Azure Local Azure Local is Microsoft’s distributed infrastructure solution that extends Azure capabilities to customer-owned environments for local VMs, containers, and selected Azure services through Azure Arc. Distributed infrastructure advanced 6 commands Aliases: Azure Stack HCI, Azure Local infrastructure, Arc-enabled local infrastructure Quick peek Open full term page