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Get Started with Databricks for Generative AI

This course is a practical introduction to building generative AI applications on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Learners prototype prompts in code with the OpenAI Agents SDK and the Unity Gateway, ground answers in their own data with AI Search (and learn when Lakebase Search fits instead), and build a no-code Genie Agent over tables and documents. They then explore a GenAI application deployed as code on Databricks Apps, follow its work in MLflow traces, and evaluate it with judges and human feedback. A capstone lab builds an end-to-end RAG application and improves it with judges and instructions written in plain language.


Note: For SCORM lecture files, please ensure that you close the SCORM window after completing the content. Do not click the ‘Next Lesson’ button, as doing so may prevent the SCORM module from being marked as complete.


Languages Available: English | 日本語  | Português BR |  한국어

Skill Level
Onboarding
Duration
3h
Prerequisites

The content was developed for participants with these skills/knowledge/abilities:

• Basic Python programming

• Comfort navigating the Databricks workspace

• Familiarity with basic generative AI concepts is helpful but not required

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Catalog Management and Data Organization

In this course, you will learn how to design, implement, and govern catalog structures and large-scale data organization with Unity Catalog on the Databricks Data and AI Platform. Divided into five modules, it begins by placing Unity Catalog within the cloud deployment model, covering the account console, regional metastores, and the administrator roles that enable it. You will then translate organizational topology (business units, regions, and dev/QA/prod environments) into a scalable catalog and schema design with naming conventions, ownership, and MANAGE delegation. Next, the course covers secure storage integration with storage credentials, external locations, the managed-storage hierarchy, managed versus external tables, volumes, and Lakehouse Federation. You will then apply access patterns and isolation strategies, including workspace-catalog binding, privilege inheritance, row filters, column masks, and attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies, and validate the outcomes with audit signals. Finally, the course closes with best practices for designing, governing, and operating a Unity Catalog estate. The hands-on demos and labs run on serverless compute and include short Genie Code steps.

Note: For SCORM lecture files, please ensure that you close the SCORM window after completing the content. Do not click the ‘Next Lesson’ button, as doing so may prevent the SCORM module from being marked as complete.

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Associate

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