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

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zero-copy clone

/ˈzɪəroʊ ˈkɒpi kloʊn/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A free instant copy of production, of which there are now forty, each owned by someone who has left.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A storage feature that creates an independent, writable copy of a dataset by sharing underlying data until it is changed.

Evidence
See also
  • reverse etlSending the warehouse's answer back to the system that asked, so the two can be wrong in unison, at last.
  • write-audit-publishA pattern that writes, audits, and publishes, in which the audit step is a boolean permanently pinned to true.