Advanced Big Data & Data Engineering
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What is "Z-ordering" (multi-dimensional clustering) used for in lakehouse tables?

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The correct answer is A) It co-locates related data across multiple columns within files, improving data skipping for queries that filter on those columns

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Correct Answer

It co-locates related data across multiple columns within files, improving data skipping for queries that filter on those columns

Explanation

Z-ordering interleaves values from multiple columns so that files contain a narrower range of values for each, allowing more files to be skipped when filtering on those columns.

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