This lab playground allows you to query a simulated product sales database. The data is stored in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and queried using your language of choice in Azure Databricks notebooks.

The lab playground also prepares you to start the Translating Business Questions to Insights Final Exam. This exam requires the use of the playground to answer the questions in the exam.

Intended Audience

This lab is intended for:

• Azure administrators
• Cloud engineers and solutions architects
• Data engineers
• Anyone with a need to visualize and analyze data in Azure

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with:

• Familiarity with the Azure Portal
• Familiarity with Databricks and one of its supported languages for querying. The lessons on using Azure Databricks to interact with ADLS data can help here.

Updates

March 1st, 2024 - Migrated to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

December 27th, 2022 - Updated screenshots & instructions to match UI

Nov 3rd, 2021 - Updated instruction to resolve the login issue with Azure Databricks

October 23rd, 2021 - Provide a workaround for an Azure Active Directory issue that initially prevents logging in to Databricks