What you'll learn

Enterprise data arrives from dozens of sources, and each demands a different ingestion approach. In this course, Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate: Data Ingestion and Loading, you’ll gain the ability to select, configure, and validate the right ingestion pattern for any data source, governed end-to-end in Unity Catalog. First, you’ll explore how to evaluate ingestion patterns and sources against volume, frequency, data type, reliability, and governance requirements. Next, you’ll discover how to load cloud storage files incrementally with COPY INTO and Auto Loader and how to configure Lakeflow Connect's managed connectors to reliably ingest enterprise SaaS and database sources. Finally, you’ll learn how to handle semi-structured and unstructured data while preserving usable structure for downstream processing. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Databricks data ingestion needed to confidently choose and implement the right ingestion approach for any source you encounter.