Managing schema evolution in a Delta Lake supporting a lakehouse architecture can be challenging. What is the best approach to ensure minimal disruption and maintain data quality during schema updates?

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Implement a separate Delta table for each schema version and union them for queries.

5.2%

Manually update the schema in a staging environment and perform a full data copy to production.

1.7%

Use Delta Lake's schema evolution features and merge schema options during data write operations to safely evolve the schema.

91.4%

Disable schema enforcement and allow all schema changes to be applied automatically without validation.

1.7%

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