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04 Provenance and Audit Trails

Lineage has a ceiling, and hash chains have limits

Two things commonly sold as answers that answer narrower questions than advertised.

Lesson 05 of 06 · 9 min

Lineage answers structural questions: if this upstream table is wrong, what is downstream; if this column changes type, what breaks. It is a static property of code, identical for every row.

Predict

"Why is customer 4711's Q3 recognised revenue 4,208.33 rather than 4,500?" Can column-level lineage answer this?

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