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Microsoft Fabric: Table Rot

Sometimes, tables "rot" in Microsoft Fabric.

You might try to query a view, and receive an error message that reads something like this:

Failed to complete the command because the underlying location does not exist. Underlying data description: table 'dbo.dirpartytable', file 'https://onelake.dfs.fabric.microsoft.com/[guid]/[guid]/Tables/dirpartytable/part-00000-[guid].c000.snappy.parquet'.

If they haven't been touched in a while, I find that the shortcuts get severed.

Here are the steps to restore:

  1. Go to the lakehouse
  2. Select the table in question
  3. Three dots -> Manage Shortcut
  4. Edit target
  5. Target details
  6. Connection - either pick an existing connection or create a new one (Make sure that the target URL is the environment that is connected to F&O)
  7. Select the data folder with the name of the table
  8. Update