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Best Practices for Securing Access to Data in Databricks
Unity Catalog is the unified governance solution for Data & AI assets in Databricks and greatly simplifies and centralized data access control. This guide includes best practices for both the streamlined approach with Unity Catalog as well as the approach without Unity Catalog.
Data Access Control with Unity Catalog
Unity Catalog elevates access to files, databases, tables, rows, and columns and more to the metastore level rather than the cluster level and allows you to set and users, groups, and permissions across workspaces.
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Data Access Control without Unity Catalog
Prior to Unity Catalog, data access was controlled at the cluster level using Table Access Controls.
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