No more blob crawling: table storage metrics in plain SQL
A while back I wrote up [a whole process](/2025-04-26-getting-a-handle-on-the-blobs-behind-unity-catalog/) for figuring out how much storage your Unity Catalog managed tables are actually using. It…
Getting a handle on the blobs behind Unity Catalog
> **Update:** As of DBR 18.0, Databricks has a built-in SQL command for this: `ANALYZE TABLE ... COMPUTE STORAGE METRICS`. It gives you active, vacuumable, and time travel byte breakdowns in a…
storage analysis
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