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Submitted by rachelw· Apr 18, 2026ELT with Spark SQL and Python

Question

A data engineer runs a statement every day to copy the previous day's sales into the table transactions. Each day's sales are in their own file in the location "/transactions/raw". Today, the data engineer runs the following command to complete this task: After running the command today, the data engineer notices that the number of records in table transactions has not changed. Which of the following describes why the statement might not have copied any new records into the table?

Options

  • AThe format of the files to be copied were not included with the FORMAT_OPTIONS keyword.
  • BThe names of the files to be copied were not included with the FILES keyword.
  • CThe previous day's file has already been copied into the table.
  • DThe PARQUET file format does not support COPY INTO.
  • EThe COPY INTO statement requires the table to be refreshed to view the copied rows.

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#COPY INTO#Data Ingestion#Idempotency#Delta Lake
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