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aladda
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Resolved! What is Z-ordering in Delta and what are some best practices on using it?

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Z-Ordering is a technique to colocate related information in the same set of files. This co-locality is automatically used by Delta Lake on Databricks data-skipping algorithms to dramatically reduce the amount of data that needs to be read. Syntax fo...

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