Databricks Certified Data Engineer - Associate

Explanation

Let's analyze each option:

A. DROP DUPLICATES FROM my_table; - This is not a valid SQL command. There is no DROP DUPLICATES statement in standard SQL or Databricks SQL.

B. SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE duplicate = False; - This assumes there's a column named duplicate in the table, which is unlikely. Even if such a column existed, it wouldn't necessarily remove all duplicates from the result set.

C. SELECT DISTINCT * FROM my_table; - ✅ CORRECT - This command will return all records from my_table but will remove duplicate rows (rows where all column values are identical). The DISTINCT keyword ensures that only unique rows are returned.

D. MERGE INTO my_table a USING new_records b ON a.id = b.id WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN INSERT *; - This is a MERGE operation that inserts new records from new_records into my_table where they don't already exist. It doesn't remove duplicates from the existing table.

E. MERGE INTO my_table a USING new_records b; - This is an incomplete MERGE statement that will result in a syntax error because it's missing the required ON clause and WHEN conditions.

Therefore, only option C (SELECT DISTINCT * FROM my_table;) will return records from the existing Delta table with duplicates removed._