Defining Azure Synapse Fabric Lakehouse Tables

The following properties are applicable to an Azure Synapse Fabric Lakehouse Table object.

Tab

Property

Description

Additional Information

  Physical Name Specifies the physical name of the table  
  Schema Specifies the schema for the table  

 

External

Specifies whether the table is an external table

 

 

Create Table As

Specifies whether the table should be created based on the results of a SELECT statement

This enables the fields on the Select tab of the Table editor. Specify the SQL SELECT statement to be used.

  If Not Exist Specifies that if the schema already exists, no exception is thrown, and no action happens  
  Physical Only Specifies whether the table is suppressed from a logical model and appears in a physical model only  
  Generate Specifies whether an SQL statement is generated during forward engineering  

General

Data Source

Specifies the data source that contains the location of data

 

Location

Specifies the folder or the file path where the table is stored

Available only when the table is an External table

Stored As

Specifies the file format for table storage

 

Like Table

Specifies a table from which the new table automatically copies all column names, their data types, and their not-null constraints

 

Key

Specifies the table key property

 

Value

Specifies the table value property

 

Select

Select Statement

Specifies the select statement to select tables and columns This tab is available only when the Create Table As option is selected.