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Guide to installing Python, R and STATA software packages in the Secure Data Environment (SDE).

Information, dates and times for planned maintenance on the NHS England Secure Data Environment (SDE) during which the system may be unavailable.

The NHS England Secure Data Environment (SDE) can be configured to provide the right tooling and compute power for your analytical requirements.

When logging into the SDE for the first time, you will be asked to create a two-factor authentication code. Refer to the SDE Set-up Guide for help setting up your two-factor authentication code and logging in to SDE.  

When you log into Databricks you can access the Databricks functions from the sidebar and the main screen.

Databricks uses notebooks and clusters to analyse and visualise data, and to run automated jobs.

The cells in a Databricks notebook run the language you selected when creating the notebook. However, if you select Python and would then like to use SQL, you can use an SQL magic command to switch.

PySpark is the Python Application Programming Interface (API) written in Python to support Apache Spark. Apache Spark is the distributed framework used to handle big data analysis.