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

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zero-etl

/ˈzɪər.əʊ iː.tiː.ˈɛl/ - n.

1. Term struck pending an account of where the transform went, who owns the source schema now, and what happens to the join when it drifts.

Struck
See also
  • data contractA written agreement about what the source will send, honored until the source has a deadline.
  • eltETL, but the part nobody documented now runs where the compute bill can see it.
  • etlThree verbs, four teams, and no agreement on which one owns the part that broke.
  • schema driftThe source renamed a column and told no one, in the same spirit it once promised the contract was stable.