I would like to understand who provides the server when using Delta sharing? If a customer exposes their delta table through Delta sharing, is it the customer who needs to setup a cluster or server to process the incoming requests?
Additionally, if you want to monitor this programmatically , you can attach a streaming listener to your query and review the query progress event . This link provides more details.
Partitioning depends on the use cases associated with reading and writing data in the table. If the reads and writes are done for a limited set of dates , having the date as a partition would help speed up processing the operations.
