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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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data mart

/ˈdeɪ.tə mɑːrt/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The version of the numbers a team built so it would stop having to agree with the other teams.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A curated, subject-area subset of the warehouse, modeled and maintained for a specific team or function's reporting needs.

Filed
See also
  • dbt modelA SQL file that turned a folder of opinions about 'revenue' into a folder of opinions under version control.
  • reverse etlSending the warehouse's answer back to the system that asked, so the two can be wrong in unison, at last.
  • transformationWhere the business logic lives, defined by whoever happened to write the join and unavailable for comment.