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At Big Data London this year, I spent two days on the Unity Catalog booth and the main topic of the booth was 'Databricks Ontology. So "what is an ontology?" - here's the plain-English answer. The short answer: Think of a new joiner On day one, a new...

Clients ask me the same three questions all the time: What are system tables? What are they about? And what can I actually do with them? I recently came across a Databricks blog that answers the last one brilliantly: Top 5 System Table Queries for U...

On our last Genie community call (join the calls), one question came up that might be in the minds of a lot of people: "There's Genie One, Genie Agents and Genie Code. Which one is used for what? Which one should I be using?" It's a fair question. Al...

The quickest way to lose a self-service analytics programme is a bill nobody saw coming. In my last post I covered chargeback: working out, after the fact, which team spent what. That answers "whose cost is this?" It doesn't answer the question Finan...

Imagine asking a colleague two questions on the same morning. The first: "What was our travel spend last month?" They open a report, read off a number, and you're done in a minute. That's a lookup. The second: "Why is our travel spend so much higher ...