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Advanced Dynamic Partition Pruning (DPP).
Updated May 5, 2026
Short answer
DPP allows Spark to prune partitions of a dimension table based on results from a fact table during join.
Deep explanation
When joining a large Fact table with a small Dimension table, Spark injects a subquery to find matching IDs from the dimension table and uses them to skip reading Fact partitions.
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