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Get total number of files of a Delta table

erigaud
Honored Contributor

I'm looking to know programatically how many files a delta table is made of.

I know I can do 

%sql
DESCRIBE
DETAIL my_table

But that would only give me the number of files of the current version. I am looking to know the total number of files (basically what I would get If I ran the following command in a terminal in the folder of my table.

> ls *.parquet | wc -l

Is there a way to achieve this ? The end goal is to build a dashboard showing, among other things, the proportion of "old parquet files" compared to the current version for a given table.

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erigaud
Honored Contributor

Yes I think that solution is good, thank you !

ADavid
New Contributor II

What was the solution?

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