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Data lineage

Data lineage shows where data comes from and how it is transformed on its way to a report.

Written by Reflective Data experts · updated Oct 5, 2026

When a number looks wrong, lineage lets you trace it back through models and pipelines to the source. It also shows what will break if you change a table.

Tools like dbt generate lineage graphs automatically from the model code.

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Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud data platform used as a data warehouse, with storage and compute scaled…

data-ingestion.md

Data ingestion

Data ingestion is the process of bringing data from sources into a storage or analytics system.

data-catalog.md

Data catalog

A data catalog is an organised inventory of your data assets, with descriptions, owners and lineage.

amazon-redshift.md

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is AWS data warehouse service for large-scale analytics.

dagster.md

Dagster

Dagster is an orchestration platform that models data pipelines in terms of the data assets they…

terraform.md

Terraform

Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool for defining and managing cloud resources in files.

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