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Alan Bernardo Palacio
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Alan Bernardo Palacio is a data scientist and an engineer with vast experience in different engineering fields. His focus has been the development and application of state-of-the-art data products and algorithms in several industries. He has worked for companies such as Ernst and Young, Globant, and now holds a data engineer position at Ebiquity Media helping the company to create a scalable data pipeline. Alan graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the National University of Tucuman in 2015, participated as the founder in startups, and later on earned a Master's degree from the faculty of Mathematics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2017. Originally from Argentina, he now works and resides in the Netherlands.
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Optimizing queries using DFP

DFP is a Delta Lake feature that automatically skips files that are not relevant to a query. It is a default option in Azure Databricks and works by collecting data about files in Delta Lake, without the need to explicitly state that a file should be skipped on a query, improving performance by making use of the granularity of the data.

The behavior of DFP concerning whether a process is enabled or not, the minimum size of a table, and the minimum number of files needed to trigger a process can be managed by the following options:

  • spark.databricks.optimizer.dynamicPartitionPruning (default is true): Whether DFP is enabled or not.
  • spark.databricks.optimizer.deltaTableSizeThreshold (default is 10 GB): The minimum size of the Delta table that activates DFP.
  • spark.databricks.optimizer.deltaTableFilesThreshold (default is 1000): Represents the number of files of the Delta table on the probe side of the join required to trigger DFP. If the...
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Alan Bernardo Palacio

Alan Bernardo Palacio is a data scientist and an engineer with vast experience in different engineering fields. His focus has been the development and application of state-of-the-art data products and algorithms in several industries. He has worked for companies such as Ernst and Young, Globant, and now holds a data engineer position at Ebiquity Media helping the company to create a scalable data pipeline. Alan graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the National University of Tucuman in 2015, participated as the founder in startups, and later on earned a Master's degree from the faculty of Mathematics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2017. Originally from Argentina, he now works and resides in the Netherlands.
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