https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/object-metadata/m-p/165582#M277 <P>Thanks to the new column<CODE class="cz qi qj qk ql b">_object_metadata</CODE> we have access to storage-level information such as MIME type, ETag, and other metadata. That functionality is for external volumes, as in some use cases that data was needed for ingestion. Just remember that it is row-level data, so if you have a parquet file, it will be returned for every row.<BR /><BR />more news&nbsp;<A href="https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-dabs-indexes-ltap-genie-last-update-25-july-ffac8533774f" target="_blank">https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-dabs-indexes-ltap-genie-last-update-25-july-ffac8533774f</A><BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="metadatacolumns.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30005iAD22CC297109E0CF/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="metadatacolumns.png" alt="metadatacolumns.png" /></span></P> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:06:39 GMT Hubert-Dudek 2026-08-12T22:06:39Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/object-metadata/m-p/165582#M277 <P>Thanks to the new column<CODE class="cz qi qj qk ql b">_object_metadata</CODE> we have access to storage-level information such as MIME type, ETag, and other metadata. That functionality is for external volumes, as in some use cases that data was needed for ingestion. Just remember that it is row-level data, so if you have a parquet file, it will be returned for every row.<BR /><BR />more news&nbsp;<A href="https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-dabs-indexes-ltap-genie-last-update-25-july-ffac8533774f" target="_blank">https://medium.com/databrickscommunity/databricks-news-dabs-indexes-ltap-genie-last-update-25-july-ffac8533774f</A><BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="metadatacolumns.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/30005iAD22CC297109E0CF/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="metadatacolumns.png" alt="metadatacolumns.png" /></span></P> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:06:39 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/object-metadata/m-p/165582#M277 Hubert-Dudek 2026-08-12T22:06:39Z