Lakehouse Governance Guide for Data and AI

Ever woken up at 2 AM to a Slack message: "Did you delete the customer_master table?" 😱
I did — 200 million rows vanished because a junior engineer had production access by mistake. One DROP TABLE later: panic, 6-hour restore, blocked reports, CEO questions.
This video shares the exact fixes that saved my team from future disasters. Learn practical lakehouse governance in 2026:
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro: My 2 AM Data Horror Story
1:10 - What is Lakehouse Governance? (Simple Explanation)
1:20 - The Stop Light Rule 🟢🟡🔴 (Classify Data Columns Easily)
3:50 - RBAC Roles You Need (Analyst, Engineer, Scientist, Admin + SQL Examples)
4:10 - Medallion Architecture Folder Structure (Bronze → Silver → Gold)
5:30 - Audit Logging & Querying for Security
6:00 - Fine-Grained Access (Views, Masking, RLS)
7:45 - 3-Week Governance Checklist
9:00 - Key Mistakes & Lessons Learned
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