KQL Shortcut OneLake Option Missing

[abhiram342]

Hi there - We want to process data from Azure Data Explorer (Kusto). using Spark. I have created shortcut using this Create a database shortcut - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn . However, I don't see option for creating shorcut on top of KQL Shortcut database i.e I want to access this data under Lakehouse using externaltable option in order to process using spark.

Created ShortCut using Azure Data Explorer (Kusto).  Create a database shortcut - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

OneLakeAvailability Option:

I can see OneLake Availablity Option for new kql database created in Fabric but it's missig in Above Screenshot

Please suggest how to resolve the issue.

Thanks,

Abhiram

[v-cboorla-msft]

Hi @abhiram342 

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[v-cboorla-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @abhiram342 

Thanks for using Microsoft Fabric Community.

No, you cannot directly create a OneLake shortcut to a KQL database that's already created using an Azure Data Explorer database. Shortcuts can only point to original data sources, not to other shortcuts. This is expected behavior due to the following reasons.

OneLake Shortcut Scope:

• OneLake shortcuts are primarily designed for accessing file-based data sources stored in external locations like ADLS Gen2, S3, Dataverse, or other OneLake locations. OneLake shortcuts are designed to point to external file-based data sources, not database-based sources.
• They are not currently compatible with database-based sources like KQL databases, including those created as shortcuts within Fabric.

I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have further questions.

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[v-cboorla-msft]

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