Databricks Advent Calendar 2025 #16

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- - DatabricksTV
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Community Articles

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For many data engineers who love PySpark, the most significant improvement of 2025 was the addition of merge to the dataframe API, so no more Delta library or SQL is needed to perform MERGE. p.s. I still prefer SQL MERGE inside spark.sql()