Streamlining ELT Processes: Optimizing your Delta Tables with Autoloader and SQL in Databricks

Matthew Salminen
5 min readNov 25, 2023
Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Databricks

Efficient ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) processes are the backbone of data engineering, ensuring that data is reliably and promptly available for analysis. Using ELT vs ETL in Databricks allows you to load your data into Delta Tables first and then continue your transformations after. A key challenge is handling and processing…

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Matthew Salminen

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