Data Fabric
Ask which capability is actually being offered — cataloguing, virtualization, lineage, policy enforcement — rather than whether to adopt the concept.
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Operational Metadata
Technical metadata describes shape and business metadata describes meaning. Operational metadata describes what actually happened, and it changes every day.
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Metadata Management and Lineage
Scanning a warehouse produces a complete catalog of names and types that answers almost none of the questions people actually arrive with.
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Column-Level Lineage
Column-level lineage narrows the dependencies to investigate. Its usefulness depends on whether selected fields, filters, joins, and other relevant paths were captured.
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Cloud Services Layer
The cloud services layer coordinates Snowflake — sign-in, metadata, query planning. It is billed only above 10% of daily warehouse use.