Beyond Partitioning: Using Liquid Clustering to Escape from Hive-Style Partitions (Feb 11th, 9:00 AM PST)

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Imagine a world unbounded by the traditional goldilocks problem required to tune and optimize your tables. For years, we’ve needed to play an expensive guessing game — will my partition strategy result in too small, too big, or just right file sizes? Do the decisions today still make sense 6 months down the road? What about 1 year? What if you didn’t need to make so many decisions on day one? What if your table could instead adapt to the volume of data with minor effort on your behalf? Welcome to the world of liquid-clustering! In this session you’ll learn to harness the power of adaptive clustering and come to an understanding that today is the day you can finally escape the shackles of hive-style partitioning.

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Example Question: For folks coming from hive, what should they know about converting their ways of working? How does liquid change the layout of their tables?