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Parquet v2 for Delta Lake tables is generally available

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Parquet v2 is now generally available for Delta Lake tables in Databricks Runtime 18.1 and above. Parquet v2 uses advanced encodings, v2 data page headers, and INT64 timestamps to improve query performance and reduce table sizes. To use, se

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