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Transferring Production Table Ownership to a Platform Administration Group
POST_START Transferring Production Table Ownership to a Platform Administration Group I recently had the task of transferring ownership of a production table from its current owner to a platform administration group. This was part of a broader initiative to centralize governance and ensure that all production tables are managed by a dedicated team. The table…
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Building Least-Privilege Analyst Access to a Production Sales Table
POST_START Building Least-Privilege Analyst Access to a Production Sales Table I recently had the task of granting analysts access to a production sales table while ensuring that they had the minimum necessary privileges. This was a critical step in maintaining data security and compliance within our organization. I started by understanding the structure of the…
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Recovering a Production Delta Table to a Known Good Version
POST_START Recovering a Production Delta Table to a Known Good Version Today, I encountered an issue with a production Delta table that had been accidentally modified. The table in question was production.sales.orders, and the latest version contained incorrect data that was causing downstream processes to fail. I needed to recover the table to a known…
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Controlling Table Data Changes with MODIFY Privileges
POST_START Controlling Table Data Changes with MODIFY Privileges I recently had the task of managing access to a table in our data warehouse called training.sales.customers. The goal was to ensure that only specific teams could modify the data, while others could only read it. I learned that using the MODIFY privilege is essential for allowing…
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Controlling Table Read Access with SELECT Privileges
POST_START Controlling Table Read Access with SELECT Privileges I recently had the task of setting up access controls for a new dataset in our organization’s data lake. The goal was to ensure that only specific analysts could read a particular customer table, while keeping the data secure from unauthorized users. I decided to use Databricks…
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Removing All Rows While Preserving a Table with TRUNCATE
POST_START Removing All Rows While Preserving a Table with TRUNCATE I recently had the task of cleaning up some data in the training.sales.customer_master table. The goal was to remove all rows from the table while keeping the table structure intact. This is a common operation when you need to reset a table for testing or…
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Loading Table Data from Queries with INSERT SELECT
POST_START Loading Table Data from Queries with INSERT SELECT I recently needed to extract a subset of customer data from our sales database for a specific analysis project. The data I needed was all customers located in Germany. I decided to use the Unity Catalog feature in Databricks to load this data into a new…
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