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

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survivorship

/sərˈvaɪ.vər.ʃɪp/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The logic that picks which of three addresses is real, optimized so the survivor is always the one entered most recently and least correctly.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The rules that decide which attribute value wins when merging duplicate records into a single golden record.

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See also
  • deduplicationThe quarterly project to merge the duplicate customers, which itself runs in three teams under two names.
  • entity resolutionDeciding whether these four customers are one customer, a question the org would rather bill four times than answer once.
  • golden recordThe one true version of the customer, assembled from five wrong ones by a rule no one in the room can recite.
  • master dataThe handful of nouns the entire company depends on and no single function will admit it owns.