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Medium-large organizations

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Data governance strategy for medium and large organizations.

Business Unit Isolation​

Apply prefixed and the same ideas presented on Small organizations.

Prefixes for better organization​

As Databricks grows, things can get messy fast. To keep your environments & teams organized and isolated, try adding a prefix—just a short tag at the start—to your Workspaces, Catalogs, and Groups.

  • Workspaces: PROD-Marketing (Tells you exactly which environment and team this belongs to).
  • Catalogs: dev_finance (Helps you quickly separate dev data from prod data on the finance department).
  • Groups: finance_data_engineers (Ensures you don't accidentally give an Engineer from a different department the wrong permissions).

Catalogs​

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Schemas​

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Permissions and Grants​

Diagram showing Databricks user groups and their permissions

Example: customer 360 view project.