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AI Search can index Streaming Tables, Materialized Views and managed Iceberg tables directly
From Databricks blog
AI Search now accepts Streaming Tables, Materialized Views and managed tables using Iceberg v3+ as index sources, alongside Delta tables. You create a Delta Sync index pointing at the source table, so the intermediate Delta copy and custom synchronization pipeline are no longer needed. The post does not label the feature's maturity.
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