Databricks
The Databricks template uses Auto Loader or COPY INTO, writing Delta tables governed by Unity Catalog.
- Auto Loader records which files it has processed in its checkpoint, so a restart does not reload them. COPY INTO skips files it has already loaded into the target table.
- Auto Loader can infer a schema, evolve it, and put values that do not fit into a rescued data column. That column is where the template's drift handling looks.
- The source path and modification time of every file are available as hidden metadata, so each bronze row can say where it came from.
- The target is a three-level Unity Catalog name (catalog.schema.table), so the job's principal needs permission to create and modify tables in that schema.