How to run Databricks from Visual Studio Code
In my last Assignment I developed In Databricks and looks and feels a lot like Azure Synapse Analytics were I’m more use to be.
One difference is that Databricks feels faster than Analytics. But the disadvantage with Databricks is the interface that feels a bit old and its different in source code handling if you are used to the Microsoft world.
This has now changed because Databricks has created an interface in VS Code. And I hope this could change the disadvantages to possibilities.
How is this done?
First you need to have Visual Studio Code
In VS Code you need to install the Extension “Databricks IDE support for Databricks”. This is done by tap the icon with the squares underlined with green. In the search bar print “Databricks”, make sure you pick the one with Databricks logo underlined with green in the picture. And the click install.
If you role down in the main window of VS Code you will find a Quick Start Guide that is very informative. Here you can get help doing your connection to Databrick and a lot more.
As well as a User Guide
Conclusion
After have using this for some time I found a way of working coding in Visual Studio Code is much faster. And testing in Databricks is still the easiest way because I haven’t found any way to execute one command at a time in VS Code. It would be nice to have an integration that works with Jupyter or similar. But still with two monitors it works just fine.