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Overwriting Delta Table Using SQL

User16752241457
New Contributor II

I have a delta table that is updated nightly, that I drop and recreate at the start of each day. However, this isn't ideal because every time I drop the table I lose all the info in the transaction log. Is there a way that I can do the equivalent of:

df.write.format('delta').mode('overwrite').save(PATH)

in SQL?

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Ryan_Chynoweth
Esteemed Contributor

I think you are looking for the INSERT OVERWRITE command in Spark SQL. Check out the documentation here: https://docs.databricks.com/spark/latest/spark-sql/language-manual/sql-ref-syntax-dml-insert-overwri...

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