A shortcut's main benefit over a copy is what?
Why B is the answer
It avoids duplicating data
Data stays in place, so there is one copy to manage.
In detail
- A shortcut avoids duplicating data.
- Fewer copies mean fewer versions of the truth.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
Three teams need one customer dataset. With shortcuts, they all read one copy, so there is no sync job and no drifting data.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Lakehouse in your workspace"] -->|"Shortcut"| B["Another OneLake location"] A -->|"Shortcut"| C["Amazon S3 or Azure storage"]
sequenceDiagram participant P as Pipeline participant S as Source participant T as Delta table P->>P: Reads the last watermark P->>S: Rows newer than the watermark S-->>P: Changed rows P->>T: MERGE P->>P: Saves the new watermark
mindmap
root(("Sharing data"))
n1["Copy"]
n2["Second store"]
n3["Sync job"]
n4["Shortcut"]
n5["One copy"]
n6["No sync"]Key point: Shortcuts avoid duplicate data.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. It removes the need for access control
- Access control still applies.
- C. It encrypts the source files
- It does not encrypt files.
- D. It always runs faster than local data
- Remote data is not always faster.