Sep 19, 2025: Support for position row-level deletes when writing to externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables or catalog-linked databases on Azure (Preview)¶
Snowflake now supports position row-level deletes for Azure when writing to externally managed tables. These deletes are supported when Snowflake performs update, delete, and merge operations on the table files. This feature is a performance improvement for these operations.
For more information, see Write support for externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables and Use a catalog-linked database for Apache Iceberg™ tables.