Queries from Serverless compute referring to older/deleted/vacuumed version of the delta tables.

s_agarwal — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:40:56 GMT

Hi Team,

I have a unity catalog based managed delta table which I am able to successfully query using the regular compute/cluster options.

But when I try to query the same table using a Serverless/SQL Warehouse, they are referring to an older version / metadata of the table which does not exists and I get an error stating that the path does not exists.

In my databricks UI, in the details section of the same table, I see that the property "lastUpdateVersion" points to the exact version which Serverless is trying to read. But my other (non-serverless) computes are reading correct data.

Any help/insight would be appreciated.

Re: Queries from Serverless compute referring to older/deleted/vacuumed version of the delta tables.

Saritha_S — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:41:30 GMT

Hi @s_agarwal

Please find below my findinsg for your query.

Serverless uses cached Unity Catalog metadata
Your UC metadata points to an old Delta version
Regular clusters bypass this cache
Fix by refreshing or forcing UC metadata rewrite

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Queries from Serverless compute referring to older/deleted/vacuumed version of the delta tables.

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