Materialized Lake Views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric A Materialized Lake View (MLV) is a table in your Fabric lakehouse that’s defined by a SQL query and kept up‑to‑date by the service. You write one CREATE MATERIALIZED LAKE VIEW … AS SELECT … statement; Fabric figures out dependencies, materializes the result into your lakehouse, and refreshes it on a schedule. Today, MLVs are in preview, SQL‑first (Spark SQL), and designed to make Medallion layers (Bronze → Silver → Gold) declarative instead of hand‑assembled pipelines.

In #MSFabric, one of my favorite new technologies are #MaterializedLakeViews. MLVs are currently in preview, but you can already see the potential to completely change the way #DataEngineers and #DataArchitects interact with and build multi-layer data architectures. The idea of #ZeroUnmanagedCopies…