READ FILES and WRITE FILES when using Hive Metastore
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02-15-2023 04:33 AM
Hello,
I'm confused about documentation on privilege types when using HMS.
The following page is supposed to talk about HMS
https://docs.databricks.com/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-privileges-hms.html
but it also mentions
READ FILES
Query files directly using the storage credential or external location.
WRITE FILES
Directly COPY INTO files governed by the storage credential or external location.
If I understand correctly these (Storage Credential and External Location) only apply to Unity Catalog, as per this page:
https://docs.databricks.com/sql/language-manual/sql-ref-external-locations.html
Is this a mistake in a documentation or there is something more fundamental that I don't understand?
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