Can external tables be created backed by current cloud files without ingesting files in Databricks?
Hi,We have huge amount of parquet files in s3 with the path pattern <bucket>/<customer>/yyyy/mm/dd/hh/.*.parquet.The question is can I create a external table in Unity Catalog from this external location without actually ingesting the files? Like wha...
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i think the issue is that you are trying to create a DELTA table in Unity catalog from an Parquet source without converting it to Delta format first.As Unity catalog will not allow delta table to be created in an non-empty location. Since you want t...
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