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 what it can be done in AWS Athena:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE tbl(
<schema>
)
PARTITION BY (...)
LOCATION
's3://<bucket>/'

 I have tried a couple of ways to create such a table resulting in errors either as "there is not delta commit logs" or "DELTA_CREATE_TABLE_WITH_NON_EMPTY_LOCATION". 

In other words, I don't want to save raw data in Databricks again since we have them in s3. However, I want to be able to query the raw data from Databricks.