How to use Delta Sharing to share data between Production and QA environment

[moattarwork]

I was wondering if the Delta Sharing can be used for sharing data between production and QA. Also I don't know if it is working as another copy of the data or it can act as virtualized (VHD) disk so the any changes in QA does not reflect in production data but QA only maintain the differences rather than the whole data set.

[john-grassroots]

I think you're looking for cloning (?)

[aimtsou]

Good afternoon @moattarwork,

it depends on how you use your environments. The delta sharing server publishes a read-only url, which means that from your QA environment you can access production data. Now the data that you load belongs and exists only in this environment. So any dataframes that you save with any modifications will only belong to the QA environment. Of course if you want to access all production data you will need to configure it accordingly but it is not a copy.

You are allowed to read the production, make changes to them (without affecting production) and storing these modifications in the environment that you are working.

I am not sure if this clarifies your query.