Known issue - Lakehouse doesn't recognize table names with special characters

The Lakehouse explorer doesn't correctly identify Data Warehouse tables names containing spaces and special characters, such as non-Latin characters.

Status: Open

Product Experience: Data Engineering

Symptoms

In the Lakehouse Explorer user interface, you see tables whose names contains spaces and special characters in the "Unidentified tables" section.

Solutions and workarounds

To correctly see the table, you can use the SQL Analytics Endpoint on the Lakehouse. You can also query the tables using Spark notebooks. When using a Spark notebook, you must use the backtick notation and directly reference the table in disk in Spark commands.