https://blog.veskovujovic.me/tags/databricks/ Recent content in Databricks on Chronicles of Data Enginenering https://blog.veskovujovic.me/general/floppy.jpg https://blog.veskovujovic.me/general/floppy.jpg Hugo en-us Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:06:41 +0200 https://blog.veskovujovic.me/posts/semantic-layer-databricks-example/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:06:41 +0200 https://blog.veskovujovic.me/posts/semantic-layer-databricks-example/ <p><img alt="semantic-view-cover" loading="lazy" src="https://blog.veskovujovic.me/posts/semantic-view-dbx/cover_semantic_view.png"></p> <h2 id="-the-enterprise-wide-enigma">🤔 The enterprise-wide enigma</h2> <p>Ask three people on your data team what &ldquo;total revenue&rdquo; means and you&rsquo;ll get three queries. One filters out returns. One rounds before summing. One groups by order date, another by ship date. All three are technically correct, and none of them match.</p> <p>This isn&rsquo;t a data quality problem. The data is fine. The problem is that every dashboard, notebook, and BI tool re-implements the aggregation logic from scratch, and nothing stops those implementations from drifting apart from each other.</p>