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Introducing the Databricks Excel add-in for business users
Databricks has introduced the Excel Add-in, now in public preview, to let business users import and analyze lakehouse data directly in Excel without writing SQL or configuring ODBC drivers. Built on Databricks SQL and Unity Catalog, it provides point-and-click access to tables and metric views, native Excel pivot tables, refreshable results, reusable Workspace queries, and optional saved SQL. Metric views let data teams define business semantics once while Unity Catalog centrally manages permissions and controls, helping avoid duplicated logic and metric drift. The preview supports selecting tables and metric views, parameterized custom functions, manual refreshes, pivot-table filtering, query reuse, and workspace changes; scheduled refresh, AI integrations, and other usability improvements are planned next.

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1 post about Excel. Every summary links to the original.

Paid picks we use ourselves. Links carry a referral code — a subscription through one earns us a commission at no extra cost to you.

Newest first

Databricks
Introducing the Databricks Excel add-in for business users
Databricks has introduced the Excel Add-in, now in public preview, to let business users import and analyze lakehouse data directly in Excel without writing SQL or configuring ODBC drivers. Built on Databricks SQL and Unity Catalog, it provides point-and-click access to tables and metric views, native Excel pivot tables, refreshable results, reusable Workspace queries, and optional saved SQL. Metric views let data teams define business semantics once while Unity Catalog centrally manages permissions and controls, helping avoid duplicated logic and metric drift. The preview supports selecting tables and metric views, parameterized custom functions, manual refreshes, pivot-table filtering, query reuse, and workspace changes; scheduled refresh, AI integrations, and other usability improvements are planned next.

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