ABSTRACT
With the ETL workflows and controls finalized, it’s time to load all the desired and scoped data into the warehouse. Somewhere around this time will be the last opportunity that the development team can reinitialize the warehouse. The volume of the data is about to explode, and there will be no going back. During the months your team has been developing and finalizing the generic ETL subsystem, you’ve also been developing data sourcing workflows, typically numbering in the hundreds. All of that comes together now in the bulk loading of the Gamma version of the warehouse. The choice of what data to load, and in what order, is no longer a technical decision, but one that focuses on making the warehouse meaningful to the early adopting users who will be given access and trained first. The warehouse is now functionally complete.
