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

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data warehouse

/ˈdeɪ.tə ˈwɛə.haʊs/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Where data goes to be agreed upon, eventually, by people who have since left.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A centralized store of integrated, modeled, historical data optimized for query and reporting across subjects.

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See also
  • centralizationWhat the last reorg was moving away from and the next one is named after.
  • data lakeA folder, but you capitalized it.
  • lakehouseA lake that read the warehouse's performance review and panicked.
  • single source of truthTerm struck pending the definitions of ownership, metric, and certification it depends on; without them the source is single but the truth is plural.