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Delta Lake: Beginners Guide

Transaction logs, ACID on a lake, and your first Delta table.

Understand the Delta transaction log, ACID guarantees on a data lake, and the basics of MERGE / UPDATE / DELETE on big data.

Foundations7 chapters· 2h 55m· in Open Table Formats

Course content

  1. 01Why Data Lakes Broke, and Delta Was BornFree
  2. 02The Delta Transaction Log🔒
  3. 03ACID Transactions and Optimistic Concurrency🔒
  4. 04Time Travel and the Audit Log🔒
  5. 05MERGE, UPDATE, and DELETE on a Lake🔒
  6. 06Schema Enforcement and Evolution🔒
  7. 07Your First Delta Table with Spark🔒

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