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A BI dashboard queries a gold aggregation — complex joins plus a GROUP BY over billions of rows — on every page load, and each query takes about 40 seconds. The data only needs to be current as of the last refresh, and the team refreshes analytics hourly. They want a Unity Catalog object whose results are precomputed and stored so that dashboard reads are fast. Which object should the dashboard query?

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  1. A. A standard view, because views persist query results between accesses
  2. B. A materialized view, refreshed hourly — precomputed and stored for fast reads
  3. C. A streaming table, because streaming tables precompute dashboard aggregations from batch tables
  4. D. A temporary view, because temporary views are visible to every BI session in the workspace
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Correct answer: A materialized view, refreshed hourly — precomputed and stored for fast reads

Reference: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ldp/concepts/materialized-views

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