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Managed and external tables
Databricks Data Engineer Associate · Lesson 20 of 22 · 2:29:46
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Prepare for the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate exam. In this lesson: managed tables, external tables and external locations, changing and dropping tables, and converting between managed and external tables in Unity Catalog. Includes three original practice questions.
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- A managed table in Hollowbrook’s gold schema was dropped by mistake two days ago. What should the data engineer do?
- Last week, a data engineer dropped Hollowbrook’s external table of sales history. The table no longer appears in Catalog Explorer, but the storage bill has not changed. Why?
- Hollowbrook’s legacy sales history is an external Delta table, and the team wants Unity Catalog to manage and optimize it, without breaking the views and permissions that depend on it. What should the data engineer run?