Does Delta Live Tables only work with Delta tables?

[Ryan_Chynoweth]

Yes, Delta Live Tables can only be used to update Delta tables.

[Trodenn]

is there a way to read a delta live table and then have it as a spark dataframe?

[Ryan_Chynoweth]

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?