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Getting data into Databricks using volumes

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Getting data into Databricks using volumes

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Now, my friends, there is not one single way in how to bring your data inside Databricks. There are different approaches and strategies, and that, of course, depends on the requirements. Usually, the data engineer is going to go and bring the data from the on-prem systems by building data pipelines, or maybe bringing the data from cloud storage or using delta sharing APIs, autoloaders, the Databricks marketplace. But for you as a data analyst, usually you want to bring quickly the data inside Databricks in order to do some ad-hoc analysis or maybe to explore the data. And for that, we have a common and special way for analysts. We're going to go and upload the data directly through the Databricks UI. So I'm going to show you the two options and we're going to start with the first one to upload the files into a volume. Let's go and do that. All right. Now, in order to upload our data to volume, the first step that we have to do is to create it. If you have looked at our schema, you can…

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