Tests are a backstop
not_null and relationships catch many breaks.
Learn · Reliability
Schema drift explained
Column changes that silently break marts.
The problem
A rename ships. Downstream models fail at 6am. Dashboards look haunted. The schema move was invisible.
The outcome
Detect structural change early; until then, lean on dbt tests and failure triage as the live safety net.
Live today
dbt test/model failures
Soon
Schema drift monitors
Goal
Catch renames early
What you get
Watch critical marts
Not every sandbox column.
Announce breaking changes
Process beats pure tooling.
Roadmap detection
Metadata column/type change alerts.
- ✓Product soon: /vectordata/schema-drift
- ✓Use case: /solutions/use-cases/schema-drift-response
- ✓dbt: /vectordata/dbt-failures
- ✓Demo
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