diff --git a/docs/sql-programming-guide.md b/docs/sql-programming-guide.md
index 6949c27438edb..a6eb29a50cf02 100644
--- a/docs/sql-programming-guide.md
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@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ Configuration of Parquet can be done using the `setConf` method on SQLContext or
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   <td><code>spark.sql.parquet.cacheMetadata</code></td>
-  <td>false</td>
+  <td>true</td>
   <td>
     Turns on caching of Parquet schema metadata.  Can speed up querying of static data.
   </td>
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ Configuration of in-memory caching can be done using the `setConf` method on SQL
 <tr><th>Property Name</th><th>Default</th><th>Meaning</th></tr>
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   <td><code>spark.sql.inMemoryColumnarStorage.compressed</code></td>
-  <td>false</td>
+  <td>true</td>
   <td>
     When set to true Spark SQL will automatically select a compression codec for each column based
     on statistics of the data.
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ Configuration of in-memory caching can be done using the `setConf` method on SQL
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   <td><code>spark.sql.inMemoryColumnarStorage.batchSize</code></td>
-  <td>1000</td>
+  <td>10000</td>
   <td>
     Controls the size of batches for columnar caching.  Larger batch sizes can improve memory utilization
     and compression, but risk OOMs when caching data.
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ that these options will be deprecated in future release as more optimizations ar
   <tr><th>Property Name</th><th>Default</th><th>Meaning</th></tr>
   <tr>
     <td><code>spark.sql.autoBroadcastJoinThreshold</code></td>
-    <td>10000</td>
+    <td>10485760 (10 MB)</td>
     <td>
       Configures the maximum size in bytes for a table that will be broadcast to all worker nodes when
       performing a join.  By setting this value to -1 broadcasting can be disabled.  Note that currently