{"id":"89bdcecd-1230-4af5-8ac2-20167f4828de","task":"Create a catalog and schema in Databricks Unity Catalog using SQL","domain":"docs.databricks.com","steps":["Open a Databricks notebook or SQL editor attached to a cluster with Unity Catalog enabled","Create the catalog: CREATE CATALOG IF NOT EXISTS my_catalog","Optionally set a managed storage location: CREATE CATALOG my_catalog MANAGED LOCATION 's3://my-bucket/my-catalog'","Switch context: USE CATALOG my_catalog","Create a schema: CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS my_schema","Verify: SHOW SCHEMAS IN my_catalog"],"gotchas":["Only metastore admins or users with the CREATE CATALOG privilege can create catalogs; account-level vs workspace-level permission boundaries are a common source of 'permission denied' errors","The default managed storage location for a catalog falls back to the metastore-level root storage if no MANAGED LOCATION is specified at catalog creation; changing this after creation requires data migration","Catalog and schema names in Unity Catalog are case-insensitive and must match the identifier rules; avoid using reserved words or special characters"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-13T16:28:50Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:44:12.974Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/89bdcecd-1230-4af5-8ac2-20167f4828de"}