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Exam DBDEA Topics: ingestion Difficulty: easy

A data engineer schedules this statement as the single task of a nightly Lakeflow Job. The source folder accumulates Parquet files throughout the day: ```sql COPY INTO main.ops.bookings_raw FROM 'abfss://landing@storacct.dfs.core.windows.net/bookings/' FILEFORMAT = PARQUET; ``` What happens on a night when no new files have arrived since the last successful run?

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  1. A. The statement completes successfully and loads zero rows, because files that were already loaded by previous runs are skipped
  2. B. The statement fails with a duplicate-file error, because COPY INTO re-inserts every file in the folder on every run
  3. C. The statement reloads all files, and the team must schedule a MERGE job afterwards to remove the duplicates
  4. D. The statement blocks until new files arrive, because COPY INTO behaves like a streaming source waiting for data
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Correct answer: The statement completes successfully and loads zero rows, because files that were already loaded by previous runs are skipped

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ingestion/cloud-object-storage/copy-into

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