Question 410
A Fabric Lakehouse mixes incremental ingestion and Delta transformations. The current environment exhibits the following problem: the table is deleted and recreated for every small change. Which action should the team take next?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Prefer a transactional incremental update pattern for mutable analytical tables. Delta operations avoid unnecessary full-table rebuilds.
Incorrect Answers
A user assumes VACUUM is needed to speed every query immediately. VACUUM removes obsolete storage files rather than being the primary data-file compactor.
A large daily batch produces thousands of small Parquet files. File compaction reduces small-file overhead.
A Delta table schema changes without an explicit migration or compatibility check. Table schema changes are contractual, not merely file parsing effects.