In Microsoft Fabric, a shortcut lets you reference data from another workspace's Lakehouse or external storage without duplicating the data. A view would only apply within the same database/Lakehouse, not across workspaces. A dataflow transforms and loads data but creates a new copy. A managed table is a physical table stored in the Lakehouse itself, not a cross-reference. So, to query dbo.Sales (Lakehouse1) and dbo.Customers (Lakehouse2) in a single SQL query, you use shortcuts. Reference: Shortcuts in OneLake