Databricks SQL documentation

Learn Databricks SQL, an environment that that allows you to run quick ad-hoc SQL queries on your data lake. Queries support multiple visualization types to explore query results from different perspectives.

About Databricks SQL

Overview

• What is Databricks SQL?

Concept

• Databricks SQL concepts
• Databricks SQL data access overview

Reference

• Release notes

Get started

Quickstart

• Learn about Databricks SQL by importing the sample dashboards
• Complete the admin onboarding tasks
• Set up a user to query a table
• Run and visualize a query

How-To Guide

• Add a user
• Create a SQL warehouse
• Configure data access

How-To Guide

• Create a query
• Create a visualization
• Create a dashboard
• Create an alert

Guides for developers

Reference

• SQL reference
• API reference

How-To Guide

• Business intelligence tools