A data engineer needs to register an existing Parquet dataset stored in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 path as a queryable table in Unity Catalog without moving the data. Which type of Unity Catalog table should they create?

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B. External table. An external table in Unity Catalog allows you to register data that already exists in cloud storage without moving or copying it. Unity Catalog manages access governance and metadata for the table, but the data lifecycle and file layout remain managed in the cloud storage location. A managed table would require writing data into Unity Catalog-managed storage. DEEP CLONE copies data. Streaming tables are for continuous ingestion pipelines.

A data engineer needs to register an existing Parquet dataset stored in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 path as a queryable table in Unity Catalog without moving the data. Which type of Unity Catalog table should they create?

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