5

The Workbench

In the previous chapters, we learned how to organize our data assets, how to secure and govern them, and how to explore the available data assets. This means we are now ready to work on the data.

In this chapter, we will primarily focus on the perspective of the end users: business intelligence users and data analysts. Throughout this chapter, we will learn about workbench in Databricks SQL.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating and working with queries
  • Visualizing query results
  • Creating and publishing dashboards  
  • Administering and governing your work

Technical requirements

To understand this chapter, we should know about the following:

  • Standard SQL statements for data retrieval and manipulation such ...

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