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External Tables in Fabric
Hello, reading and understanding more about shortcuts in Fabric it seems like Unmanaged / External Tables are useless. The main point of an external Table in Spark is to leave data where it is a...
IMHO it's about choice. Leave the data where it is in the external storage and simply create a shortcut to it, no need to create an external table over that data. With External Tables you could choose to create them over file data in the Files area of the Lakehouse (for example). Shortcuts just bypass the step of you having to define the external table definition
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Most Valuable ProfessionalIMHO it's about choice. Leave the data where it is in the external storage and simply create a shortcut to it, no need to create an external table over that data. With External Tables you could choose to create them over file data in the Files area of the Lakehouse (for example). Shortcuts just bypass the step of you having to define the external table definition