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How to connect a Notebook to an existing Fabric connection without using Pipeline.

JānisB — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:00:06 GMT

There is an existing connection (Manage connections and gateways). For example connection ID: aaabbb .

Is it possible to connect a Notebook (T-SQL and Python and PySpark(Python)) to an existing Fabric connection without using Pipeline?

Re: How to connect a Notebook to an existing Fabric connection without using Pipeline.

v-achippa — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:28:29 GMT

Hi @JānisB,

Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Fabric Community.

As of now, fabric does not support directly connecting a Notebook (T-SQL, Python, or PySpark) to an existing fabric connection from "Manage connections and gateways" without using a pipeline.

The "Manage connections and gateways" feature in fabric is mainly used for Data Pipelines, Dataflows, and Linked Services to connect to external data sources.
Fabric Notebooks (T-SQL, Python, PySpark) do not natively support direct connections to these pre-configured connections.
Notebooks typically connect directly to Lakehouse, Data Warehouse or KQL Database directly rather than through "Manage connections and gateways".

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Anjan Kumar Chippa

Re: How to connect a Notebook to an existing Fabric connection without using Pipeline.

spartan27244 — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:51:23 GMT

So how would you connect to say an Azure SQL database in PySpark?