A streaming table is the right construct to ingest continuously arriving telemetry from Auto Loader.
Computing the latest per truck_id requires near-real-time incremental updates as new events arrive, which is best handled with a downstream streaming table. The daily aggregates are naturally suited to a materialized view, which maintains precomputed results for reporting and refreshes efficiently without requiring a continuously running streaming aggregation for a once- per-day consumption pattern.

The code creates a view called email_ltv that selects the email and ltv columns from a table called user_ltv, which has the following schema: email STRING, age INT, ltv INT. The code also uses the CASE WHEN expression to replace the email values with the string "REDACTED" if the user is not a member of the marketing group. The user who executes the query is not a member of the marketing group, so they will only see the email and ltv columns, and the email column will contain the string "REDACTED" in each row.

The correct method to define a table using Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines (LDP) is with the
@dlt.table decorator, which persists the output as a managed Delta table. When ingesting raw JSON data, spark.read.json() or spark.read.format("json").load() is the standard approach. This reads JSON- formatted files from the source and stores them in Delta format automatically managed by Databricks.

Predictive Optimization automatically runs OPTIMIZE to compact small files and improve data layout, and ANALYZE to collect and refresh table statistics. Together, these operations ensure efficient query planning, better data skipping, and optimized performance and cost for Unity Catalog managed Delta tables.

According to Databricks documentation, Change Data Feed (CDF) allows pipelines to read incremental data changes, including inserts, updates, and deletes, from a Delta table. When deletions occur in the source table, reading the CDF stream ensures downstream consumers receive the deletion records. The Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines API provides the apply_changes() function (or auto-CDC pipelines) with the apply_as_deletes parameter to correctly apply those deletions to the target table. This enables automatic synchronization between bronze and silver layers. Options A and D either require manual handling or complete rebuilds, and C incorrectly applies CDF to the target rather than the source. Therefore, enabling CDF on the bronze table and using apply_as_deletes=True is the correct, Databricks-supported configuration.