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

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idempotent load

/aɪˈdɛmpətənt loʊd/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A load that is safe to rerun any number of times, which is why it has now been rerun any number of times.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A load designed so that running it multiple times produces the same result as running it once.

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See also
  • backfillRe-running history to match the present, and discovering history had a different opinion about what 'customer' meant.
  • dead-letter queueWhere the records that could not be processed go to be inspected, in the same sense that a junk drawer is a filing system.