Variant shredding will soon be enabled by default on new Variant tables
UpdateUnverifiedAdded Sep 24, 2026
Starting November 18, 2026, Databricks will automatically add the variantShredding table feature to new tables that contain a column of the VARIANT type when they are created on Databricks Runtime 17.3 or above. Variant shredding stores frequently accessed fields in a typed, columnar layout to improve query performance.
Topics: SQL, Performance
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