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Delta Lake

Delta tables add ACID transactions and time travel to data lakes.

Advanced 10 min read Lesson 3 of 150 Challenge included
What you will be able to do
  • Write with delta format.
  • Use MERGE for upserts.
  • Query history.

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Delta tables add ACID transactions and time travel to data lakes.

  • Write with delta format.
  • Use MERGE for upserts.
  • Query history.
delta.sqlSQL
CREATE TABLE lessons USING DELTA AS SELECT * FROM staging.lessons;
SELECT * FROM lessons VERSION AS OF 2;
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