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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Silver Layer

The medallion layer that holds cleansed, deduplicated, validated and conformed data at roughly entity grain.

Definition

Silver applies schema enforcement, type casting, joins and data quality expectations to create an enterprise view usable by data science and as the source for gold.

Exam tip

Deduplication and data quality rules belong in silver.

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