Advancing Spark - Databricks SQL Serverless First Look

There's a growing battle for the crown of serving layers in the Lakehouse Architecture - what is the best tool to give your business users direct querying power over the data in your lake? One of the major flaws on the Databricks side historically has been the need for a running query, with Databricks SQL Serverless, we are getting real speed boost in this area. In this video, Simon switches on Databricks SQL Serverless and shows how the underlying cluster powers up in under 10 seconds, after which it behaves just like a normal spark cluster! To learn more about Databricks SQL Serverless, check out the docs here:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/sql/admin/serverless As always, if you need help getting your Lakehouse data in the hands of the organisation, give Advancing Analytics a call