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SQL โ€ข LESSON 180

Data Quality Validation

How can we detect invalid or corrupt orders before loading them into Silver storage?

Advancedโฑ 3 Minutesโญ 1930 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How can we detect invalid or corrupt orders before loading them into Silver storage?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

Quarantine checks detect null primary keys, unassigned foreign keys, and invalid negative amounts.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Data quality quarantine tables, automated pipeline alerts, dead-letter queue routing.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
SELECT *
FROM source_orders
WHERE order_id IS NULL
OR customer_id IS NULL
OR amount < 0;

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade SQL code for Data Quality Validation.

  • โœ“ Quarantine filtering
  • โœ“ Data quality assertions
  • โœ“ Dead-letter isolation
  • โœ“ Data pipeline validation