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Building Modern Data Applications Using Databricks Lakehouse
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Building Modern Data Applications Using Databricks Lakehouse

by Will Girten
October 2024
Intermediate to advanced
246 pages
6h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Applying Data Transformations Using Delta Live Tables

In this chapter, we’ll dive straight into how Delta Live Tables (DLT) makes ingesting data from a variety of input sources simple and straightforward, whether it’s files landing in cloud storage or connecting to an external storage system, such as a relational database management system (RDBMS). Then, we’ll take a look at how we can efficiently and accurately apply changes from our input data sources to downstream datasets, using the APPLY CHANGES command. Lastly, we’ll conclude the chapter with a deep dive into the advanced data pipeline settings.

To summarize, in this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Ingesting data from input sources
  • Applying changes to downstream ...
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