I "up voted'" all of @werners suggestions b/c they are all very valid ways of addressing my need (the true power/flexibility of the Databricks UDAP!!!). However, turns out I'm going to end up getting incremental data afterall :). So now the flow will go like this: Salesforce -> AWS AppFlow -> S3 Bronze -> Databricks DLT w/AutoLoader -> S3 Silver. thanks again @werners !