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The best practices for organizing Synapse workspaces and lakehouses

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JovanPop
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Nov 24, 2021
The lakehouse pattern enables you to keep a large amount of your data in Data Lake and to get the analytic capabilities without a need to move your data to some data warehouse to start an analysis. A...
Updated Jan 25, 2022
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_MartinB
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Jan 26, 2022

Hi JovanPop ,

from my understanding, a lakehouse is basically a logical layer that is defined within a Synapse workspace for "interpreting" the content/parquet-files of a data lake.

 

Is it possible to access a lakehouse which was defined in one Synapse workspace from another workspace?
I understand that it would be easy to access the content/parquet-files with the second workspace but then I would have to define the logical layer again from scratch.