As a Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate, you are tasked with optimizing the performance of read operations on a Delta table in Azure Databricks. The table currently suffers from performance issues due to the presence of a large number of small files, which is causing excessive overhead during read operations. Your solution must not only address the immediate performance issues but also consider long-term maintainability and cost-effectiveness. Which of the following approaches would you choose to optimize the reads from the Delta table? (Choose one option)