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Whre is data stored in OneLake?
Hi ItGoat ,
In OneLake, data is not automatically copied to a repository area; it remains within your workspace until you decide to share it. OneLake is designed to be a single, unified, logical data lake for your entire organization, and it supports distributed ownership through workspaces¹. Each workspace can have its own administrator, access control, region, and billing capacity, allowing different parts of the organization to operate independently while still contributing to the same data lake.
To share data between different workspaces and users, OneLake uses shortcuts. These shortcuts allow you to easily share data without having to move or duplicate information unnecessarily. When teams work independently in separate workspaces, shortcuts enable you to combine data across different business groups and domains into a virtual data product to fit a user's specific needs.
So, while you can create as many workspaces as you like, and they may initially seem like silos, the architecture of OneLake and the use of shortcuts are meant to facilitate collaboration and sharing of data across the organization, effectively eliminating data swamps and silos.
Best Regards,
Neeko Tang
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Hi ItGoat ,
In OneLake, data is not automatically copied to a repository area; it remains within your workspace until you decide to share it. OneLake is designed to be a single, unified, logical data lake for your entire organization, and it supports distributed ownership through workspaces¹. Each workspace can have its own administrator, access control, region, and billing capacity, allowing different parts of the organization to operate independently while still contributing to the same data lake.
To share data between different workspaces and users, OneLake uses shortcuts. These shortcuts allow you to easily share data without having to move or duplicate information unnecessarily. When teams work independently in separate workspaces, shortcuts enable you to combine data across different business groups and domains into a virtual data product to fit a user's specific needs.
So, while you can create as many workspaces as you like, and they may initially seem like silos, the architecture of OneLake and the use of shortcuts are meant to facilitate collaboration and sharing of data across the organization, effectively eliminating data swamps and silos.
Best Regards,
Neeko Tang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.