APPLY CHANGES

APPLY CHANGES was renamed - Databricks now calls it AUTO CDC, as of June 2025.

APPLY CHANGES → AUTO CDC

The original DLT change data capture API - the APPLY CHANGES INTO SQL statement and apply_changes() Python function that apply CDC records to a streaming table as SCD type 1 or type 2.

• It never actually stopped working - the docs still list the APPLY CHANGES APIs as available, just gently recommend you stop typing them. 🔗
• Its name outlived the rename in the URLs - the current SQL reference page still lives at a path ending ldp-sql-ref-apply-changes-into. 🔗
• It launched with SCD type 1 only; keeping the full history of changed records as SCD type 2 arrived four months later. 🔗

Category

Data engineering

In use from

February 2022🔗

Renamed

June 2025🔗

Also known as

APPLY CHANGES INTO, APPLY CHANGES API, apply_changes()

Verified

2026-09-27