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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 227

Incremental Deduplication against Existing Target Table

How can we deduplicate a new incremental batch against already committed records in the warehouse?

Advancedโฑ 3 Minutesโญ 860 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How can we deduplicate a new incremental batch against already committed records in the warehouse?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

Performing a left_anti join between incoming batch records and existing warehouse keys discards already-loaded data.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Idempotent batch ETL runs preventing double insertion when pipelines are rerun.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
df_new_records = df_incoming.join(df_existing_target, "order_id", "left_anti")

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Incremental Deduplication against Existing Target Table.

  • โœ“ left_anti incremental filter
  • โœ“ Idempotent ETL processing
  • โœ“ Target warehouse key exclusion