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databricks Platform · Updated Oct 6, 2025

Partition metadata is generally available

You can now enable partition metadata logging, a partition discovery strategy for external tables registered to Unity Catalog.

What it does

You can now enable partition metadata logging, a partition discovery strategy for external tables registered to Unity Catalog. important Databricks recommends that you use liquid clustering, instead of partitioning, to simplify table management and optimize query performance. Unity Catalog automatically discovers partitions for external tables by recursively listing directories.

Why it matters

important Databricks recommends that you use liquid clustering, instead of partitioning, to simplify table management and optimize query performance.

Architecture
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In short

You can now enable partition metadata logging, a partition discovery strategy for external tables registered to Unity Catalog. important Databricks recommends that you use liquid clustering, instead of partitioning, to simplify table management and optimize…

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Key takeaway
You can now enable partition metadata logging, a partition discovery strategy for external tables registered to Unity Catalog.
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