Does Delta Live Tables only work with Delta tables?
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06-25-2021 03:05 PM
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06-25-2021 03:05 PM
Yes, Delta Live Tables can only be used to update Delta tables.
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12-21-2022 08:32 PM
is there a way to read a delta live table and then have it as a spark dataframe?
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12-22-2022 11:03 AM
Hi @Pierre Nanquette ,
You cannot use dataframes within a DLT pipeline. However, tables that are created in a pipeline are saved to target databases at which point you can read those tables into dataframes using Scala/Python/R outside of your DLT notebook.
TLDR - create a new notebook and read the data with dataframes.
Does that help?

