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After explaining what Delta Live Tables are and then going in depth on how we can record data source changes of those tables with Change Data Capture (CDC), there is yet another useful feature for your Delta Tables called Change Data Feed or CDF. This feature will record cha...

Delta Lake, an open-source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes, allows you to store and manage data in data lakes. Delta tables are a core concept of Delta Lake, which enables data versioning, transactional reads and writes, schema enforcement, and metadata management. In this articl...

Databricks recently released System Tables, to help users understand and monitor their usage. They also had the older and more skunk works project called Overwatch, which also provides usage and infrastructure information. So what’s the difference between the two? When should I use e...

Established by the minds behind Apache Spark, Databricks has positioned itself as a cornerstone in today’s data-driven world. It seamlessly integrates data science, engineering, and business on a unified platform. Thanks to collaborative spaces and its integration with Delta Lake, Databricks e...

Delta Lake is a powerful storage layer that brings ACID transactions to Apache Spark and big data workloads. Delta Lake not only enhances reliability but also introduces various optimization techniques that can significantly boost performance and streamline data workflows. In this article, we wil...

Delta Lake is a powerful storage layer that brings ACID transactions to Apache Spark and big data workloads. Delta Lake not only enhances reliability but also introduces various optimization techniques that can significantly boost performance and streamline data workflows. In this article, we wil...

I. Introduction With the modern cloud era, ELT has slowly replaced ETL as the standard way of doing data processing. Storage has become cheaper and cloud APIs (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage) have made it easier to pull in and store all kinds of data — batch, streaming, structured, unstru...

Today, Australia is home to nearly one million Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, representing 3.8% of the Australian population (Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2021). Our First Nations Peoples have inhabited this country for over 60,000 years yet are not recognised in the Australi...

The periodic table, a cornerstone of chemistry, is a captivating arrangement of elements that unveils the hidden secrets of the building blocks of matter. Organized by atomic number, this table provides a roadmap to understanding the properties and relationships between different elements. Each e...

Chemistry has long been considered the central science, influencing everything from medicine to materials science. The periodic table of elements has served as a fundamental tool for chemists for over a century. However, recent advancements in transmutation, the process of changing one element into ...