Handling Schema Drift During Load — Roadmap Step & Resources
What happens when a source adds or removes a column
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: ETL/ELT Pipeline Engineering
Before this step
Interview questions
- How would you handle a source system that silently changes its schema without notice?
Study resources
- Airbyte Documentation (Article) — Official documentation for Airbyte, a widely used open-source data ingestion platform. Background reading/viewing for: Handling Schema Drift During Load.
- dbt Documentation (Article) — Official documentation covering loading patterns into a warehouse. Relevant to: Handling Schema Drift During Load.
Part of
- Data Loading Strategies — section
- ETL/ELT Pipeline Engineering roadmap — the full learning path