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Anonymous
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2 years ago
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Cannot Delete Lakehouse Issue

Yesterday I tried to delete some old test Lakehouses and was met with the error "This item couldn't be deleted. Please try again later." I'm able to delete other objects as normal. As a test I create...
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    Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Update: If I first delete the one-time pipeline used to populate the Lakehouse, I'm able to delete the Lakehouse. It's like Fabric sees that something is connected to the Lakehouse and won't let me delete it. Is this expected behavior?

     

    I tested again by creating a Lakehouse with a copy data pipeline, and a completely blank Lakehouse. The blank Lakehouse deleted with no problem. The other lakehouse would not delete until I deleted the associated pipeline first.

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farukc
Microsoft Employee
2 years ago

Documentation is updated about deleting the lakehouse  : Create a lakehouse - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

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Delete a lakehouse

To delete a lakehouse, navigate to OneLake data hub and find your lakehouse. select the ... next to the lakehouse name and select Delete. The lakehouse and its associated SQL analytics endpoint and semantic model are deleted.

 Note

A lakehouse can't be deleted if it's referenced elsewhere, for example, in a pipeline or within a real time analytics workflow.

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