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Optimize Command not performing the bin packing

brickster_2018
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

I have a daily OPTIMIZE job running, however, the number of files in the storage is not going down. Looks like the optimize is not helping to reduce the files.

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brickster_2018
Databricks Employee
Databricks Employee

The files are not physically removed from the Storage by the optimize command. A VACUUM command has to be executed to achieve the same

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