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PJ
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Resolved! How should you optimize <1GB delta tables?

I have seen the following documentation that details how you can work with the OPTIMIZE function to improve storage and querying efficiency. However, most of the documentation focuses on big data, 10 GB or larger. I am working with a ~7million row ...

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Thank you @Hubert Dudek​ !! So I gather from your response that it's totally fine to have a delta table that lives under 1 file that's roughly 211 MB. And I can use OPTIMIZE in conjunction with ZORDER to filter on a frequently filtered, high cardina...

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