You are very right. Before, you won’t be able to create storage credentials or external locations until a UC metastore existed, because those objects were scoped inside the metastore. That’s why everything used to work fine once the metastore was pro...
The changed behavior is due to updates in how Unity Catalog (UC) handles external locations and storage credentials in Azure Databricks. Previously, UC automatically created the external location and credential objects when provisioning a metastore, ...
