https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/the-nightmare-of-initial-load-and-how-to-tame-it/m-p/147474#M65 <P>Initial loads can be a total nightmare. Imagine that every day you ingest 1 TB of data, but for the initial load, you need to ingest the last 5 years in a single pass. Roughly, that’s 1 TB × 365 days × 5 years = 1825 TB of data. The new row_filter setting in Lakeflow Connect helps to handle it. #databricks</P> <P><A href="https://databrickster.medium.com/the-nightmare-of-initial-load-and-how-to-tame-it-9c81c2a4fbf7" target="_blank">https://databrickster.medium.com/the-nightmare-of-initial-load-and-how-to-tame-it-9c81c2a4fbf7</A></P> <P><A href="https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/initial-data-load-best-practices-databricks" target="_blank">https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/initial-data-load-best-practices-databricks</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ship.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23794iBC2C9356BB4568D8/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="ship.png" alt="ship.png" /></span></P> Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:25:58 GMT Hubert-Dudek 2026-02-07T19:25:58Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/the-nightmare-of-initial-load-and-how-to-tame-it/m-p/147474#M65 <P>Initial loads can be a total nightmare. Imagine that every day you ingest 1 TB of data, but for the initial load, you need to ingest the last 5 years in a single pass. Roughly, that’s 1 TB × 365 days × 5 years = 1825 TB of data. The new row_filter setting in Lakeflow Connect helps to handle it. #databricks</P> <P><A href="https://databrickster.medium.com/the-nightmare-of-initial-load-and-how-to-tame-it-9c81c2a4fbf7" target="_blank">https://databrickster.medium.com/the-nightmare-of-initial-load-and-how-to-tame-it-9c81c2a4fbf7</A></P> <P><A href="https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/initial-data-load-best-practices-databricks" target="_blank">https://www.sunnydata.ai/blog/initial-data-load-best-practices-databricks</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ship.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23794iBC2C9356BB4568D8/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="ship.png" alt="ship.png" /></span></P> Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:25:58 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/the-nightmare-of-initial-load-and-how-to-tame-it/m-p/147474#M65 Hubert-Dudek 2026-02-07T19:25:58Z