synapse database

Question

In synapse notebook,
spark.sql("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS db_databaseName")
df.write.mode("overwrite").saveAsTable("tbl_tableName")

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Question:
In Data tab, under workspace/SQL database, I do not see this database?
Am I looking in the correct place for this database and table I just created in notebook?
Thank you

Answer 1

Hello @arkiboys ,

Welcome to the MS Q&A platform.

When you use the notebook it will connect to the Apache spark pools. When you create the database from there, that means it’s a lake database.

But if you open SQL script and create DB from there, it will connect to the serverless SQL pool. When you create the DB from here, it will create as a serverless DB.

If you connect to the serverless endpoint using SSMS, you will see all lake databases as well as SQL serverless DBs.

I hope this helps.

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