Known issue - Dataflow Gen2 refresh fails due to missing staging SQL analytics endpoint

When a Dataflow Gen2 creates its staging lakehouse, sometimes the associated SQL analytics endpoint isn't created. When there's no SQL analytics endpoint, the dataflow fails to refresh with an error.

Status: Open

Product Experience: Data Factory

Symptoms

If you face this known issue, you see the dataflow refresh fail with an error. The error message is similar to: Refresh failed. The staging lakehouse is not configured correctly. Please create a support ticket with this error report.

Solutions and workarounds

As a workaround, you can create a support ticket and include the specific error message. Since the staging lakehouse is an internal artifact, we can recreate the lakehouse internally. The issue only affects existing staging lakehouses. If you create a new dataflow, it won't have this issue.

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