Data engineering·Quality, tests and knowing it is wrong
the table is wrong and the question 'who owns this' takes two days and three Slack channels to answer.
Data ownership
Also calleddataset owner, table ownership
A named team accountable for a dataset's correctness, freshness and lifecycle. Without it, quality problems are everyone's to notice and nobody's to fix, which is the default state of any warehouse over a certain size. Ownership recorded in the catalogue rather than in someone's memory is what makes an incident routable at three in the morning.