AI engineering glossary · Data engineering
What is full load?
Full load (also called Full refresh): Copying an entire dataset from source to target on every run, replacing whatever was there before. It is simple and self-correcting, because any earlier error disappears, but slow and costly for big tables.
Full load: an example
A 50,000-row product table is fully reloaded every night because it is small and changes unpredictably.
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Where you learn it
Full load is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.