Welcome to this straightforward and practical guide on enabling Unity Catalog in your Azure environment. This video is tailored for users who are looking to activate this powerful feature but are unsure where to start.

Unity Catalog brings a new layer of data management and security to your Databricks environment, and with this short demo, you’ll learn how to unlock these capabilities in a few easy steps. I’ll walk you through a stepbystep demonstration on how to enable it in your Azure Databricks workspace.

⌚Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:30 Requirements to follow along
01:40 High Level Summary of Enablement Process and Services Required
02:50 Creating a Resource Group
03:30 Creating a premium Databricks workspace
04:16 Creating a ADLS Gen2Storage Account and Container
05:44 Creating the Access Connector for Azure Databricks
06:55 Assigning Storage Blob Data Contributor permissions to the Access Connector
08:18 Enabling Unity Catalog for the Databricks workspace
08:30 Accessing the Admin Console
09:30 Creating a Metastore
11:27 Assigning the workspace to the Metastore

Links and Documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/enus/azu...
https://learn.microsoft.com/enus/azu...

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