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No cluster create capabilities on my databricks UI, just SQL Warehouse. Complete work stoppage.

cloudengineer — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:52:49 GMT

Re: No cluster create capabilities on my databricks UI, just SQL Warehouse. Complete work stoppage.

CURIOUS_DE — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:44:05 GMT

@cloudengineer

Possible Reasons

🏢 SQL-Only Workspace: Your workspace may be provisioned for Databricks SQL only — no support for notebooks or clusters.
🔒 Permission Restriction: You might not have cluster create or use permissions.
👤 Wrong Persona Selected: UI might be set to SQL persona only (limited view).

Steps to Resolve

Check Workspace Type:
- Ask your admin: Check with admin for credential access from Databricks Account console
Switch Persona (if option available):
- Top-left menu → Change from SQL to Data Science & Engineering
Verify Permissions:
- Ask admin to check if you have:
  - Can Manage Clusters
  - Can Use Clusters
Request Full Access:
- If workspace is SQL-only and you need notebooks/Spark, request a full "Data Science & Engineering" workspace.

Re: No cluster create capabilities on my databricks UI, just SQL Warehouse. Complete work stoppage.

MadhuB — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:35:45 GMT

@cloudengineer By default workspace admins can create interactive clusters. Non-admin users should be granted access either to a compute policy or should be provisioned access onto a existing clusters.

If there is a requirement to enable cluster creation either a personal compute or interactive clusters with a specific policy, either of the below options should be enabled by an admin user.

1. Enable Personal Compute by an account admin under databricks account console settings as below.

2. Another workaround is to enable Allow unrestricted cluster creation either to a group or individual by the Account/workspace admin user.

Re: No cluster create capabilities on my databricks UI, just SQL Warehouse. Complete work stoppage.

Mizan1 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:22:13 GMT

You might need to check if when you created the workspace, you chose the Hybrid option and NOT the Serverless option.

If you chose the Serverless option, you will not be able to access custom compute.

So, you will need to create another workspace with the Hybrid option enabled. Once you select Hybrid and successfully create your databricks workspace, you will be able to click on Compute on the left bar and finally have access to compute clusters. And it won't keep redirecting you to SQL Warehouse (very annoying lol).

Look at my screenshot below when creating Databricks workspace:

Screenshot of access to compute clusters:

Also, bear in mind that when running a Datafactory pipeline, you might run into errors in a Databricks notebook block if the Databricks workspace is Serverless. For that, you'll also need to recreate your workspace with Hybrid option enabled.

Re: No cluster create capabilities on my databricks UI, just SQL Warehouse. Complete work stoppage.

binlogreader — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:00:14 GMT

Do you mind posting a snapshot of your workspace? Are you able to see "compute" in the left pane but not able to create the cluster, OR is the option entire not visible?