Metastore Admin by Accident
Note: This is a fictionalized account. If it sounds exactly like your company, that’s just because dysfunction has a standard operating procedure. Once a month, the permissions in Databricks vanish. Not all of them, just enough to ruin your morning and make everyone wonder who angered the SCIM gods this time. The parent company’s fix? Put multiple sub-companies on the same tenant and let “random competent-looking people” inherit admin rights. Not the actual admins. Not cloud architects (we don’t have one). Just whoever looks like they’ve touched a database before. ...