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Sharing foreign Delta tables

Put foreign tables in Delta format, which Databricks reads straight from their source storage, inside a share.

Why it is worth watching

Sharing without copying first. Foreign schemas and tables in general no longer carry a label on the page; the Delta variant still does.

Where to read more

It is part of something we wrote up: Sharing data with OpenSharing — How a share, a provider and a recipient actually work: the two sharing protocols, bearer tokens against OIDC federation, sharing with history, and what cannot be shared.

The Databricks documentation for Sharing foreign Delta tables

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Old-format OpenSharing recipient tokens2026-12-08
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