Catalog
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Open sharing reaches foreign catalogs, Iceberg included
From Databricks release notes
A provider can share Iceberg tables, schemas and tables that live in a federated catalog without copying anything into Databricks. The compute and storage cost of materialising them stays with the provider. Generally available.
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