Data lake
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How to query your CUR in Athena without a Glue crawler (2026)
Partition projection computes partitions from table properties instead of calling GetPartitions, so a CUR table needs no crawler and no MSCK REPAIR TABLE. The configuration, and the six ways it returns zero rows instead of an error.
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How to stop one Athena query from scanning your whole CUR (2026)
Athena's two workgroup cost controls behave completely differently: the per-query limit cancels a query, the per-workgroup limit only alerts. Plus the charge for cancelled queries and the partial results they leave in S3.