Support for Direct Lake on OneLake

[thracian2015]

Currently, the Migration to Direct Lake notebook migrates to Direct Lake on SQL Endpoint. When will it support migrating to DirectLake on OneLake?

[m-kovalsky]

As of 0.11.3, the default is to migrate to DL over OneLake.

[thracian2015]

It looks like we've missed this version by a tad since we used 0.11.1 a month ago. Indeed, based on my research, this partition seems to use Direct Lake on SQL. If so, does Semantic Link plan to include a feature to convert from DirectLake on SQL to DirectLake on OneLake?

    "partitions": [
      {
        "name": "<name>",
        "mode": "directLake",
        "source": {
          "type": "entity",
          "entityName": "<sourcetable>",
          "expressionSource": "DatabaseQuery"
        }
      }
    ]

[m-kovalsky]

In order for the direct lake migration to use DL over OneLake, you will either need to do the process from scratch using 0.11.3 or use the following function to update the connection.

https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-link-labs/wiki/Code-Examples#update-the-connection-of-a-direct-lake-semantic-model

[thracian2015]

Thanks Michael! Looks like use_sql_endpoint = False and running that function will migrate all partitions to DL on OneLake. Do you suggest we wait until DirectLake on OneLake goes GA?

[m-kovalsky]

Correct. It’s up to you.