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9. Clones

Ron L’Esteve1  
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Chicago, IL, USA
 

With Azure Databricks 7.2 and above, there is now the capability of cloning data to create a copy of an existing Delta Table at a specified version by using the CLONE command. Many data engineers are interested in learning more about some of the features, benefits, and use cases of Deep and Shallow clones and how they can get started with using the CLONE command in Azure Databricks.

Clones have many use cases including data archiving, reproducing ML datasets, data sharing, and more. Additionally, clones can be either Deep or Shallow, ...

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