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Consequences of removing a workspace from a metastore in Azure Databricks

m997al
Contributor III

In the documentation (Enable a workspace for Unity Catalog - Azure Databricks | Microsoft Learn), it appears that I can remove a workspace from a metastore, and as long as the workspace has jobs that don't use tables, files, and models stored in any catalog, then after unlinking from the metastore all the jobs in the workspace should still run.

In my case the jobs are not using any local data in Databricks, they are reaching out to some cloud databases and performing operations there.

I'm also assuming that the only models that will disappear are the registered models in the metastore (in a catalog).  But models that mlflow has logged to dbfs will still be there after the unlinking.

Just trying to confirm this prior to unlinking.

Why unlink?  Because apparently we can only have one metastore per Azure region (regardless of Azure subscription).  So we are reconfiguring given that information and will create a new metastore in another Azure subscription, same Azure region, given our needs.

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