To change ownership of a materialized view

[Data_NXT]

 working in a Unity Catalog-enabled Databricks workspace, and we have several materialized views (MVs) that were created through a Delta Live Tables (DLT) / Lakeflow pipeline.

Currently, the original owner of the pipeline has moved out of the project, and we need to transfer ownership of the materialized views to a new user/service principal.

• What is the correct/supported way to transfer pipeline ownership in UC?

• Are there any recommended steps or caveats for this process?

Thanks

[szymon_dybczak · Accepted solution]

Hi @Data_NXT ,

You can change the owner of a materialized view if you are a both a metastore admin and a workspace admin.

Use the following steps to change a materialized views owner:

• Open the materialized view in Catalog Explorer, then on the Overview tab, click See refresh details. This opens the pipeline details for the pipeline that manages the materialized view.
• Click Share. The Permissions Settings dialog appears. You must be a metastore and workspace admin to edit these settings.
• Click x to the right of the current owner's name to remove the current owner.
• Start typing to filter the list of available users. Click the user who should be the new pipeline owner.
• Click Save to save your changes and close the dialog.

Here's a documentation:

Configure materialized views in Databricks SQL - Azure Databricks | Microsoft Learn

And if you would like to change owner of a pipeline as well, here's how to do this:

Cannot see how to change the owner of a DLT pipeline in the Databricks UI - Databricks