Metadata-only is a feature

Row sampling sounds helpful until security review starts. Then the deal dies for six weeks.

VectorData is opinionated: table timestamps, dbt artifacts, job statistics. Not result rows. Not columns of customer data for “profiling.”

That constraint makes the product better. It forces freshness SLAs, calm triage, and cost signals that actually exist in metadata.

If a vendor needs your rows to tell you a table is stale, ask why INFORMATION_SCHEMA was not enough.