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Is it possible to clone/read an existing external Iceberg table in Databricks?

MarcintheCloud
New Contributor II

Hello, 

I've been experimenting with trying to read and/or clone an existing Iceberg table into Databricks/Delta. 

I have an Azure Blob Storage container (configured to use absf for access) that contains an existing Iceberg table structure (data in parquet + the associated metadata) that was created in a local instance of Spark.

I am following: https://docs.databricks.com/en/delta/clone-parquet.html - It's not entirely clear to me what "/path/...

My query looks like: 

 

CREATE TABLE icebergtable CLONE iceberg.`abfs://[redacted].dfs.core.windows.net/warehouse/nyc/taxis/`;

 

 

I've tried various permutations  of the above data path. The directory structure looks like warehouse->nyc->taxis->data,metadata
 
No matter what I do, I end up with 

 

NoSuchTableException: Table does not exist at location: ...

 

What exactly am I supposed to put in the path? Or is there another syntax issue here? 

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